The Ethics and Aesthetics of Eco-caring
This book applies ecofeminist ethics to the realm of aesthetics, offering instances of how alternative configurations of the self, of nature and of non-human animals can go hand in hand with different and viable experiences and visions of environmental welfare.
Preceded by an insightful introduction on the history of ecofeminism and of ecofeminist literary criticism, the chapters included in the volume illustrate the continuing theoretical influence of seminal ecofeminists such as Carolyn Merchant, Rosemary Ruether, Karen Warren, Val Plumwood, as well as an awareness of more recent trends in ecofeminist formulations such as those proposed by Greta Gaard, Serenella Iovino, or Vernon Gras. The book also includes instances of contemporary nature writing such as the text by Irish poet Grace Wells, as well as case studies of the application of ecofeminist tenets in contemporary poetry and fiction written by both men and women. As the contributors demonstrate, contemporary writers are currently deploying a sound interest in the envisioning of alternative visions of healthy and ethical relationships between the human self and the natural environment.
This book will be of interest to those researching the use of language for posthumanist ethics, the deconstruction of gender dichotomies and the ethics of care and environmental justice, as well as to those studying the wider field of ecofeminist literature.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Womens Studies.
Margarita Estvez-Sa is Professor of English and American Literature at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain. She is the author of A Pilgrimage from Belfast to Santiago de Compostela: The Anatomy of Bernard MacLavertys Triumph over Frontiers (with Anne MacCarthy, 2002), and the editor of the Papers on Joyce journal. She has published essays on modernist literature, contemporary Irish literature, and feminist criticism.
Mara Jess Lorenzo-Modia is Full Professor of English Literature and Dean of the Faculty of Philology at Universidade da Corua, Spain. Her work on womens learning in the sixteenth century was published in The Invention of Female Biography (ed. Gina Walker, 2017).
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Contents
Margarita Estvez-Sa and Mara Jess Lorenzo-Modia
Grace Wells
Manuela Palacios
ngel Chaparro-Sainz
Leticia Prez Alonso
Matilde Martn-Gonzlez
Irene Sanz Alonso
Carmen Flys Junquera
Guide
The chapters in this book were originally published in Womens Studies, volume 47, issue 2 (May 2018). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Editors Introduction
The Ethics and Aesthetics of Eco-caring: Contemporary Debates on Ecofeminism(s)
Margarita Estvez-Sa and Mara Jess Lorenzo-Modia
Womens Studies, volume 47, issue 2 (May 2018), pp. 123146
Chapter 1
Culture and Nature: The Roots of Ecopoetics
Grace Wells
Womens Studies, volume 47, issue 2 (May 2018), pp. 147159
Chapter 2
Inside the Whale: Configurations of An-other Female Subjectivity
Manuela Palacios
Womens Studies, volume 47, issue 2 (May 2018), pp. 160172
Chapter 3
Isms and Prisms: A Mormon View on Writing about Nature and Women
ngel Chaparro-Sainz
Womens Studies, volume 47, issue 2 (May 2018), pp. 173186
Chapter 4
Susan Howes Historical Ethics of Space and Puritan Spirituality: An Ecofeminist Reading of Souls of the Labadie Tract
Leticia Prez Alonso
Womens Studies, volume 47, issue 2 (May 2018), pp. 187200
Chapter 5
Caring for People, Caring for Nature: A Deconstructive Ecofeminist Reading of Sylvia Wantanabes Fiction
Matilde Martn-Gonzlez
Womens Studies, volume 47, issue 2 (May 2018), pp. 201215
Chapter 6
Ecofeminism and Science Fiction: Human-Alien Literary Intersections
Irene Sanz Alonso
Womens Studies, volume 47, issue 2 (May 2018), pp. 216231
Chapter 7
Ecofeminist Replicants and Aliens: Future Elysiums through an Ethics of Care
Carmen Flys Junquera
Womens Studies, volume 47, issue 2 (May 2018), pp. 232250
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ngel Chaparro-Sainz is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Studies at the University of the Basque Country, Spain.
Margarita Estvez-Sa is Professor of English and American Literature at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Carmen Flys Junquera is Professor in the Department of Modern Philosophy at the University of Alcal, Madrid, Spain.
Mara Jess Lorenzo-Modia is Full Professor of English Literature and Dean of the Faculty of Philology at Universidade da Corua, Spain.
Matilde Martn-Gonzlez is Professor of American Literature at the Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.
Manuela Palacios is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Leticia Prez Alonso is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Jackson State University, Missouri, USA.
Irene Sanz Alonso is Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Philosophy at the University of Alcal-GIECO, Madrid, Spain.
Grace Wells
