The Changing Nature of Eco/Feminism : Telling Stories from Clayoquot Sound

Moore, Niamh

University of British Columbia Press（2016/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 284 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780774826280
• DDC分類 333.72082

Full Description

In the summer of 1993, activists set up a peace camp blocking a logging road into an extensive area of temperate rainforest in Clayoquot Sound that was slated for clear-cutting. Twenty-odd years later, Clayoquot holds a prominent place in environmental discourse, yet it is not generally associated with feminist or eco/feminist movements.

The Changing Nature of Eco/Feminism argues that Clayoquot offers a potent site for examining a whole range of feminist issues. Through a careful study of eco/feminist activism against clear-cut logging practices in British Columbia, the book explores how a transnational eco/feminist practice insisted on an account of logging situated in histories of colonialism, holding the Canadian state to account for its deforestation practices. Moore demonstrates that the sheer vitality of eco/feminist politics at the Peace Camp in the summer of 1993 confounded dominant narratives of contemporary feminism and has re-imagined eco/feminist politics for new times.

Contents

Preface: "She Goes On and On and On"

1 Rethinking Eco/Feminism through Clayoquot Sound

2 Eco/Feminist Genealogies: Essentialism, Universalism, and Telling (Trans)national Histories

3 Eco/Feminism and the Question of Nature

4 Clayoquot Histories: Our Home and Native Land?

5 "It was like a war zone": The Clayoquot Peace Camp and the Gendered Politics of (Non)Violence

6 Mothers, Grandmothers, and Other Queers in Eco/Feminist Activism

7 Romanticizing the (Gendered) Nature of Childhood?

8 Unnatural Histories: Mother Nature, Family Trees, and Other Human-Nature Relationships

9 Eco/Feminism and the Changing Nature of Feminism

Appendix

Notes

References

Index