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The Challenge of Ecofeminism: Ecological Relationships and Healing in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms
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Ecofeminism is a movement that brings together elements of environmentalism and feminism, while challenging both simultaneously. Ecofeminism in the United States emerges from the antimilitarist and antinuclear movements in the 1970s and 1980s. Ecofeminism challenges anti-life culture and social institutions based on male dominant patriarchy. There are many ecofeminist perspectives how to conceptualize the relationship between women and nature. Some ecofeminists believe that women are biologically closer to nature than men. And other ecofeminists search for a feminist spirituality found in nature-based religions. Both aspects cherish women’s own experiences and spirituality, which celebrate women’s connection to the rest of life on Earth. This paper examines the direction ecofeminism needs to take, which plays a crucial role to connect human beings and nature and to heal them as well. In that sense exploring a Native American writer’s texts is a test case to understand healing processes through ecofeminism because Native Americans have their painful history and wounds in their culture. This study focuses especially on Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms in which various Native American women characters have their own wounds. Individual and cultural wounds will be examined. And it explores how wounds can be healed through recovering the relationships among humans as well as the ones between humans and nature. Also, this study analyzes how the Native American heroine develops ecological consciousness and tries to protect and preserve nature from the patriarchal exploitation of nature.
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Ecofeminism is a movement that brings together elements of environmentalism and feminism, while challenging both simultaneously. Ecofeminism in the United States emerges from the antimilitarist and antinuclear movements in the 1970s and 1980s. Ecofeminism challenges anti-life culture and social institutions based on male dominant patriarchy. There are many ecofeminist perspectives how to conceptualize the relationship between women and nature. Some ecofeminists believe that women are biologically closer to nature than men. And other ecofeminists search for a feminist spirituality found in nature-based religions. Both aspects cherish women’s own experiences and spirituality, which celebrate women’s connection to the rest of life on Earth. This paper examines the direction ecofeminism needs to take, which plays a crucial role to connect human beings and nature and to heal them as well. In that sense exploring a Native American writer’s texts is a test case to understand healing processes through ecofeminism because Native Americans have their painful history and wounds in their culture. This study focuses especially on Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms in which various Native American women characters have their own wounds. Individual and cultural wounds will be examined. And it explores how wounds can be healed through recovering the relationships among humans as well as the ones between humans and nature. Also, this study analyzes how the Native American heroine develops ecological consciousness and tries to protect and preserve nature from the patriarchal exploitation of nature.
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