The Tangled Roots of Feminism, Environmentalism, and Appalachian Literature

In this study, Elizabeth Engelhardt finds in the work of four women writers from Appalachia, the origins of what is recognized today as ecological feminism - a wide-reaching philosophy that values the connections between humans and non-humans and works for social and environmental justice.

About the author

Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt is an assistant professor of American Studies and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Summary

Contemporaries were shocked when author Mary Noailles Murfree revealed she was a woman, but modern readers may be more surprised by her cogent discussion of community responses to unwanted development.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.12.2003
• EAN: 9780821415108
• ISBN: 978-0-8214-1510-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Series in Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Appalachia
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology