Bodily Natures (ebook)

Argumento de Bodily Natures (ebook)

"This impressively researched and vigorously argued study will be of the first importance to all environmental humanists, especially for its deeply-informed and subtle account of the 'trans-corporeality' of the human self." ?Lawrence Buell, Harvard University

Stacy Alaimo is Professor of English at the University of Texas at Arlington. She is author of Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space and editor (with Susan Hekman) of Material Feminisms (IUP, 2008).

"Alaimo offers new insights into feminist thought and theory. Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self is sure to appeal to many students and scholars of literary studies and critical theory." ?New Books in Critical Theory

"This is a book that should be read by anyone?scholars, students, readers, and anyone else with a body?for it is a marvelous contribution to environmental thinking and to human culture more broadly." ?American Book Review, December 1, 2010

"Alaimo does a fabulous job of thinking through how a trans-corporeal understanding of matter provides a more robust and more adequate basis for appreciating issues of environmental health and environmental justice." ?Nancy Tuana, Pennsylvania State University

"Bodily Natures showcases the distinctive contribution that an ecocritic can make to the field." ?Enviromental Ethics01. Bodily Natures
2. Eros and X-Rays: Bodies, Class, and "Environmental Justice"
3. Invisible Matters: The Sciences of Environmental Justice
4. Material Memoirs: Science, Autobiography, and the Substantial Self
5. Deviant Agents: The Science, Culture, and Politics of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
6. Genetics, Material Agency, and the Evolution of Posthuman Environmental Ethics in Recent Science Fiction
Notes
Works Cited
Index