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This collection reexamines menopause across the disciplinary fields of ecofeminism and ecocriticism and brings together cross-sectional ecofeminist voices privileging women's menopausal positionality within literary works.
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Nicole Anae
Part I: Ecocritical Readings of Menopause in Chaucer and Literatures of the 19th Century
Chapter 1: Ecofeminism and the Wife of Bath's Loathly Lady
Lesley Kordecki
Chapter 2: From Becoming to Being: The Material-Semiotic Abhumanity of Peri-to-Post-Menopausal Women in the Victorian Gothic
Nicole C. Dittmer
Chapter 3: Rehabilitating the Witch: An Ecocritical Reading of "Hänsel and Gretel"
Nicole Anae
Part II: Ecocritical Readings of Menopause in Contemporary Women's Writing
Chapter 4: From Brushing Cats to Olive Kitteridge: An Ecocritical Approach to Older Women in Selected Literature
Benay Blend
Chapter 5: The Nature of the Peri/Post/Menopausal Detective: From Jane Marple to Jessica Fletcher to Vera Stanhope
Casey A. Cothran
Chapter 6: The Change by Kirsten Miller: An Ecofeminist Manifesto for Menopause
Nadia Mead
Part III: International Perspectives of Ecocritical Menopause
Chapter 7: Eventing the Menopause: Reading of Peri/ Post-Menopausal Women in Chinese Novels
CHAN Kit-Sze Amy
Chapter 8: Absences and Solitude: Representation of Older Women and their Ecosystem within Select Works by Indian Women Novelists
Swapna Gopinath
Chapter 9: The Birth of Japanese Literature on Menopause in the Anthropocene: Reading Heikei-ki [¿¿¿; An Account of Menopause] by Japanese Queer Ecofeminist Poet Ito Hiromi
Keitaro Morita
Part IV: Future Directions in Ecocritical Menopause
Afterword: Ecocritical Menopause Studies: An Emergent Investigative Field
Nicole Anae
About the Contributors
About the author
Edited by Nicole Anae - Contributions by Nicole Anae; CHAN Kit-Sze Amy; Benay Blend; Casey A. Cothran; Nicole C. Dittmer; Swapna Gopinath; Lesley Kordecki; Nadia Mead and Keitaro Morita
