A new scholarly volume titled The Woman in Latin American and Spanish Literature has come out. The first part of the book is titled, “Women and Nature.”
Headdesk times ten.
Women and Nature
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Opinions, art, debate
A new scholarly volume titled The Woman in Latin American and Spanish Literature has come out. The first part of the book is titled, “Women and Nature.”
Headdesk times ten.
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So many tropes, so little time.
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OK, I am puzzled. This is a book on literature. If authors of that literature conflate women with nature in some way or other, why is it inappropriate for an author of an analytical book on this literature to acknowledge this?
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What do you mean by “authors conflate women with nature”?
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OK, I am puzzled. This is a book on literature. If authors of that literature conflate women with nature in some way or other, why is it inappropriate for an author of an analytical book on this literature to acknowledge this?
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I do not understand how my comment appeared anonymously before I posted it…
I have not read the book, but it does seem to me that [male] authors often depict women as somehow more a part of nature than men are. I do not agree with this view of women, but if authors of literature being studied take this view, it seems appropriate to investigate it as part of the overall study of the literature.
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It’s been studied and studied and studied, to the point where it’s the only thing that’s been studied. There are many literary characters who are interested in math, writing, reading, philosophy, money, traveling, anything. Yet we never hear about them. It’s always nature / sex, nature / sex, nature / sex. There is never anything else. You are not in the field, but for those of us who are “women and nature” is a theme that has occupied the field to a degree that is not justified. The reason for this is the persistent strain in academic feminism that insists that women “are all about nature while men are all about (the nasty, disgusting, anti-women) reason and logic.”
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That weird binary is actually related to cultural Christianity.
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Aha. I really had no idea.
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