Showing posts with label ecofeminism. Show all posts
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Sunday, September 16, 2012

Women Writing Nature: Gendered Interventions?

This week's readings come from an edited collection that asks, is nature writing gendered?

Do women notice some features of nature that men do not? Do women experience nature differently than men? What about the way they write about nature is gendered?

Whether that "difference" is understood as biological (i.e. women are more "in tune" with nature because they are inherently more "natural"), or as cultural (i.e. women are more cooperative), or as political (i.e. women are more likely to suffer environmental injustice), how do women intervene in thinking and writing nature?