Call your "mutha" : a deliberately dirty-minded manifesto for Earth Mother in the Anthropocene / Jane Caputi.
Series: Heretical thought: ; Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour).Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780190902742.Subject(s): Environmentalism -- Social aspects | Environmentalism -- Philosophy | Environmental sciences -- Language | Sexism in language | Ecofeminism | Patriarchy
| Nature -- Effect of human beings on | Environment and Ecology | Sociology & anthropologyAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780190902704DDC classification: 304.2 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: This text engages with the Earth Mother, a complex figure recognizing the power to give life and death, and speaking to the communal destiny with all living things. Specifically, Jane Caputi rejects misogynist and colonialist stereotypes, and examines the potency of the Earth Mother in order to deepen awareness of how our relationship to the Earth went astray and what might be done to address this. She looks at contemporary narratives and artwork to consider the ways in which that potency has already reasserted itself into our political and popular culture.
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Also issued in print: 2020.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This text engages with the Earth Mother, a complex figure recognizing the power to give life and death, and speaking to the communal destiny with all living things. Specifically, Jane Caputi rejects misogynist and colonialist stereotypes, and examines the potency of the Earth Mother in order to deepen awareness of how our relationship to the Earth went astray and what might be done to address this. She looks at contemporary narratives and artwork to consider the ways in which that potency has already reasserted itself into our political and popular culture.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 10, 2020).