Browsing by Subject "Eco-feminism"
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Item Ecological Consciousness in Johanna Spyri's Heidi(Department of English, 2021) K.C., SujataThis thesis examines and analyzes Spyri's novel Heidi and explores how she presents nature in an eco-feminine way. As this novel was written in mid- Victorian period, the effects of colonization is seen. This study explores that the nature-mother and hospitality of Heidi including her grandfather, Peter stood healer to Clara Seseman. Feminine traits are normally associated with the idea of beauty, creation, compassion and tolerance but here nature has presented in different way. The speaker in the novel is explicitly or implicitly female who celebrate nature as healer, open-book for the people who can understand the language of nature. The study employs theoretical insights from eco-feminist scholars. It precisely brings in the eco-critical insights developed by Carolyn Merchant and Val Plumwood as theoretical parameters to analyze the relationship between women and nature.Item A Relationship between Women and Nature: An Eco-feminist Reading of Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom(Department of English, 2022) Bhatta, BashudevThis research paper primarily explores the interconnection between women and nature in American society in terms of oppression and subjugation in Jonathan Franzen’sFreedom. In this fiction, Franzen unfolds the vulnerable position of women in American society in parallel with the feeble conditionof naturebecauseof the masculine and capitalist worldview in the early twenty–first century. The female characters are explicitly or implicitly subjugated in the text in the way natural forces have been mutilated with men’s uncontrolled desire for material progress and prosperity. InFreedom, the scenic beauty of nature along the right to live of a cerulean song bird is encroached by the patriarchal agency in its collaboration with the capitalist economic enterprise. The inappropriate political gain has influenced the natural elements. Even the innocent children and youngsters are also impacted by war fares. This research paper examines the vulnerable condition of women along nature inthe theoreticalframe of eco-feminism. Moreover, it precisely brings in the theoretical insights and perspectives of socialist ecofeminism postulated by Francoise D’Eaubonne that concerns abolishing all forms of domination of all marginalized groups and oppression of nature. Thus, the research workexplores thepatriarchal– capitalisthegemony andcontrol over women and nature. Eventually, the research concludes that the condition of women and nature in American society is almost the same as we can observe in the text. Keywords: Eco-feminism, oppression, Environmental degradation, hegemonic masculinity, pro-feminist environmentalism, American values