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OverviewEcocritical Menopause: Women, Literature, Environment, “The Change” is the first volume of its kind to bring together cross-sectional ecofeminist voices privileging women’s menopausal positionality within literary works. This collection reexamines menopause across the disciplinary fields of ecofeminism and ecocriticism as clearly the most neglected phase of the menstrual cycle and aims to develop a critical discourse in counterpoint to the persistent cultural and critical legacies that sustain underrating women in midlife. In highlighting selected literary representations of female being in transition, this volume includes: • Exploration of the core motifs mediating the fashioning of menopausal women, including biology, the body, body shaming, climacterium, hysteria, the crone/hag figure, femininity, gender, identity, reproduction, sexlessness and asexuality • Reexamination of histo-cultural biases that continue to perpetuate a devaluation of women after menopause, such as ageism, degeneration, loss of fertility and myths of essentialism, patriarchy and hegemony, social taboos, the medicalization of menopause, and cultural “menophobia” • Analysis of literature genres in which we find portraitures of peri/post/menopause subjectivity, such as autofiction, crime fiction, detective fiction, folktales, frame tale, fiction, mystery, poetry, short story, and the “whodonit.” Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nicole Anae , Nicole Anae , CHAN Kit-Sze Amy , Benay Blend, Central New Mexico CommunPublisher: Lexington Books Imprint: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic Dimensions: Width: 15.90cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.435kg ISBN: 9781666964585ISBN 10: 1666964581 Pages: 210 Publication Date: 11 July 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationNicole Anae is senior lecturer in literary and cultural studies at Central Queensland University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |