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Beschreibung
Ecocritical 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."
Ecocritical 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."
Über den Autor
Edited by Nicole Anae - Contributions by Nicole Anae; CHAN Kit-Sze Amy; Benay Blend; Casey A. Cothran; Nicole C. Dittmer; Swapna Gopinath; Lesley Kordecki; Nadia Mead and Keitaro Morita
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Nicole Anae

Part I: Ecocritical Readings of Menopause in Chaucer and Literatures of the 19th Century

Chapter 1: Ecofeminism and the Wife of Bath's Loathly Lady

Lesley Kordecki

Chapter 2: From Becoming to Being: The Material-Semiotic Abhumanity of Peri-to-Post-Menopausal Women in the Victorian Gothic

Nicole C. Dittmer

Chapter 3: Rehabilitating the Witch: An Ecocritical Reading of "Hänsel and Gretel"

Nicole Anae

Part II: Ecocritical Readings of Menopause in Contemporary Women's Writing

Chapter 4: From Brushing Cats to Olive Kitteridge: An Ecocritical Approach to Older Women in Selected Literature

Benay Blend

Chapter 5: The Nature of the Peri/Post/Menopausal Detective: From Jane Marple to Jessica Fletcher to Vera Stanhope

Casey A. Cothran

Chapter 6: The Change by Kirsten Miller: An Ecofeminist Manifesto for Menopause

Nadia Mead

Part III: International Perspectives of Ecocritical Menopause

Chapter 7: Eventing the Menopause: Reading of Peri/ Post-Menopausal Women in Chinese Novels

CHAN Kit-Sze Amy

Chapter 8: Absences and Solitude: Representation of Older Women and their Ecosystem within Select Works by Indian Women Novelists

Swapna Gopinath

Chapter 9: The Birth of Japanese Literature on Menopause in the Anthropocene: Reading Heikei-ki [¿¿¿; An Account of Menopause] by Japanese Queer Ecofeminist Poet Ito Hiromi

Keitaro Morita

Part IV: Future Directions in Ecocritical Menopause

Afterword: Ecocritical Menopause Studies: An Emergent Investigative Field

Nicole Anae

About the Contributors

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Importe, Umwelt
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Ökologie
Medium: Buch
ISBN-13: 9781666964585
ISBN-10: 1666964581
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Redaktion: Anae, Nicole
Hersteller: Lexington Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 235 x 157 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Nicole Anae
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.07.2024
Gewicht: 0,499 kg
Artikel-ID: 128989927

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