Mother/nature : popular culture and environmental ethics
This brief but ambitious book explores the relationship with nature through the imagery we use when we talk about Mother Nature. Employing the critical tools of religious studies, psychology, and gender studies, Roach examines the various manifestations of nature as 'mother' and what that idea implies for the way we approach the natural world
1 online resource (xvi, 221 pages) : illustrations
9780253109781, 9780253341785, 9780253106162, 9781282072046, 9786612072048, 0253109787, 0253109787, 0253341787, 0253106168, 1282072048, 6612072040
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Preface
Acknowledgments
Wilderness
within and without
Heart-of-darkness environmentalism ; Mother Nature in popular culture ; Tools of analysis : religion, psychology, and gender
I. Nature as good mother
Love your mother
Loving Mother Earth : case study of a bumper sticker ; Ecofeminist critique ; Are women closer to nature?
Mothers and mother nature
Unconscious and the environment ; Nature of mothering ; Case study revisited
II. Nature as bad mother
She will try to drown you
Threatening mother : case study of two commercials ; And ye shall be as gods : fantasies of aseity, a theological analysis ; Human badness and environmental discourse
Splitting Mother Nature
Psychoanalytic perspective ; Bad mother ; Why popular culture attacks Mother Nature
III. Nature as hurt mother
Our mother needs our help
Green knights : case study of a public service announcement ; Relational self : toward a theory of environmental right relation ; Earth healing and the environmental movement : four criteria
Healing Mother Nature
Environmentalism and the tragic ; Mother Nature, human nature : concluding appraisals
Toward the future
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English