Does Williams’ ecofeminism identity and the feminism description of nature risk biologically essentializing or gendering our experience with nature?

Order Description

Required textbook: Terry Tempest Williams, Red

Topic:
Williams frequently defaults to an ecofeminist sensibility in her ruminations on the human-nature bond by focusing on the human body (especially the female body) in Red. Does this approach risk biologically essentializing or gendering our experience with nature?

Guide:
The intention is to offer an assessment of the writer’s program for increased environmental awareness in his or her readers. In responding, students may elaborate on the question to explore how the assigned writer hopes to convince readers as well as whether, in the student’s opinion, he or she is successful. The paper need not reference any other texts than the primary choice, though students should feel free to research as they see fit.

Grade: The paper will be graded on its ability to establish a claim, to support that claim using evidence from the works themselves, to present the claim in an academically and stylistically sound manner, and to offer information in a technically accurate way (i.e. to comply with the rules and limitations set out above).

Required textbook: Terry Tempest Williams, Red

Topic:
Williams frequently defaults to an ecofeminist sensibility in her ruminations on the human-nature bond by focusing on the human body (especially the female body) in Red. Does this approach risk biologically essentializing or gendering our experience with nature?

Guide:
The intention is to offer an assessment of the writer’s program for increased environmental awareness in his or her readers. In responding, students may elaborate on the question to explore how the assigned writer hopes to convince readers as well as whether, in the student’s opinion, he or she is successful. The paper need not reference any other texts than the primary choice, though students should feel free to research as they see fit.

Grade: The paper will be graded on its ability to establish a claim, to support that claim using evidence from the works themselves, to present the claim in an academically and stylistically sound manner, and to offer information in a technically accurate way (i.e. to comply with the rules and limitations set out above).