The changing nature of eco/feminism telling stories from Clayoquot Sound
Twenty-odd years after activists set up a peace camp blocking a logging road into an extensive area of temperate rainforest in Clayoquot Sound, that summer of protest still holds a prominent place in Canadian environmental discourse. Yet although the camp was said to be based on feminist or eco/femi...
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Vancouver, BC ; Toronto
UBC Press
[2015]
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| Zusammenfassung: | Twenty-odd years after activists set up a peace camp blocking a logging road into an extensive area of temperate rainforest in Clayoquot Sound, that summer of protest still holds a prominent place in Canadian environmental discourse. Yet although the camp was said to be based on feminist or eco/feminist principles, insufficient attention has been paid to its impact on feminism and the debates that were raging at that time. Moore sets out to remedy this through a careful, qualitative study of the peace camp. She demonstrates that the sheer vitality of eco/feminist politics at the camp confounded dominant narratives of contemporary feminism and re-imagined eco/feminist politics for new times....Provided by publisher |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-256) and index |
| Beschreibung: | xx, 262 Seiten 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780774826280 9780774826273 |