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The Changing Nature of Eco/Feminism

Telling Stories from Clayoquot Sound

Twenty-odd years after activists set up a peace camp blocking a logging road into an extensive area of temperate rainforest in Clayoquot Sound, that summer of protest still holds a prominent place in Canadian environmental discourse. Although the camp was said to be based on feminist or eco/feminist principles, insufficient attention has been paid to its impact on feminism and the debates that were raging at that time. Moore sets out to remedy this through a careful, qualitative study of the peace camp. She demonstrates that the sheer vitality of eco/feminist politics at the camp confounded dominant narratives of contemporary feminism and re-imagined eco/feminist politics for new times.

284 pages | © 2015


Table of 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

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