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OverviewIn 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Niamh Moore , Niamh Moore-CherryPublisher: University of British Columbia Press Imprint: University of British Columbia Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.431kg ISBN: 9780774826280ISBN 10: 0774826282 Pages: 284 Publication Date: 15 January 2016 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface: “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 IndexReviewsAuthor InformationNiamh Moore is a Chancellor’s Fellow in sociology at the University of Edinburgh. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |