Forces of Nature : Natural(-izing) Gender and Gender(-ing) Nature in the Discourses of Western Culture
ISBN: 9781443808859
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Cambridge Scholars Publisher
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Subjects: Literature;

In Forces of Nature, the authors investigate the relationships between the natural world and gender and sexuality. The authors explore the frameworks within which femininity and nature have been constructed, as well as the impact nature has had on our understandings of masculinity, homosexuality, and heterosexuality. For some writers nature has restorative powers, for others nature embodies violence and destruction. Yet, one common thread runs across all of the chapters in this collection: ..


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