The Tangled Roots of Feminism, Environmentalism, and Appalachian Literature FROM THE PUBLISHER
In The Tangled Roots of Feminism, Environmentalism, and Appalachian Literature, Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt examines the origins of what we recognize today as ecological feminism - a wide-reaching philosophy that values the connections between humans and nonhumans and that works for social and environmental justice - and follows its development in the works of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Appalachian women writers.
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Appalachia was not the only place that gave birth to ecological feminism, says Engelhardt (women's studies, West Virginia U.-Morgantown), but it is the place she knows about. She first describes the social, cultural, and intellectual context of the region in the early 1900s, then examines texts by women about it during the period. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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