附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Wilderness--within and without -- Heart-of-darkness environmentalism ; Mother Nature in popular culture ; Tools of analysis : religion, psychology, and gender -- I. Nature as good mother -- Love your mother -- Loving Mother Earth : case study of a bumper sticker ; Ecofeminist critique ; Are women closer to nature? -- Mothers and mother nature -- Unconscious and the environment ; Nature of mothering ; Case study revisited -- II. Nature as bad mother -- She will try to drown you -- Threatening mother : case study of two commercials ; And ye shall be as gods : fantasies of aseity, a theological analysis ; Human badness and environmental discourse -- Splitting Mother Nature -- Psychoanalytic perspective ; Bad mother ; Why popular culture attacks Mother Nature -- III. Nature as hurt mother -- Our mother needs our help -- Green knights : case study of a public service announcement ; Relational self : toward a theory of environmental right relation ; Earth healing and the environmental movement : four criteria -- Healing Mother Nature -- Environmentalism and the tragic ; Mother Nature, human nature : concluding appraisals -- Toward the future.
摘要:This brief but ambitious book explores the relationship with nature through the imagery we use when we talk about Mother Nature. Employing the critical tools of religious studies, psychology, and gender studies, Roach examines the various manifestations of nature as 'mother' and what that idea implies for the way we approach the natural world.
