Table of Contents:
  • "Not by politics alone" : gender and environmental justice in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Cancer / Julie Sze
  • A saintly reading of nature's text : Alice Walker's Meridian / Charlotte ZoĆ« Walker
  • Intersections of nature and the self in Chicana writing / Benay Blend
  • Land and Hawaiian identity : literary activism in Kiana Davenport's Shark dialogues / Mayumi Toyosato
  • Strategies for a cross-cultural ecofeminist ethics : interrogating tradition, preserving nature / Greta Gaard
  • The birth of a batterer : Isaac Babel's "My first goose" / Steven G. Kellman
  • The pastoral rapture of Eula in The Hamlet / Janice C. Crosby
  • Persephone's daughters : Jane Smiley's A thousand acres and classic myth / Glynis Carr
  • Writing the real : Virginia Woolf and an ecology of language / L. Elizabeth Waller
  • "The road of ice" : motion, language, and silence in Marianne Moore / Carol H. Cantrell
  • Ecocritical uses of the erotic / Catrin Gersdorf.