How do we understand the agency and significance of material forces and their interface with human bodies? What does it mean to be human in these times, with bodies that are inextricably interconnected with our physical world? Bodily Natures considers these questions by grappling with powerful and pervasive material forces and their increasingly harmful effects on the human body. Drawing on feminist theory, environmental studies, and the sciences, Stacy Alaimo focuses on trans-corporeality, or movement across bodies and nature, which has profoundly altered our sense of self. By looking at a broad range of creative and philosophical writings, Alaimo illuminates how science, politics, and culture collide, while considering the closeness of the human body to the environment.

The intimate connection between bodies and the environment

About the Author

Stacy Alaimo is Professor of English at the University of Texas at Arlington. She is author of Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space and editor (with Susan Hekman) of Material Feminisms (IUP, 2008).

Reviews

Alaimo offers new insights into feminist thought and theory. Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self is sure to appeal to many students and scholars of literary studies and critical theory.

* New Books in Critical Theory *

Bodily Natures showcases the distinctive contribution that an ecocritic can make to the field.

* Enviromental Ethics *

This is a book that should be read by anyone-scholars, students, readers, and anyone else with a body-for it is a marvelous contribution to environmental thinking and to human culture more broadly. December 1, 2010

* American Book Review *



Book Information
ISBN 9780253222404
Author Stacy Alaimo
Format Paperback
Page Count 210
Imprint Indiana University Press
Publisher Indiana University Press
Weight(grams) 318g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm