“The World Was Given Us to Fix It”: Jewish American Women’s Ecopoetry
This article explores the ecopoetry written by three women poets who also identify themselves as Jewish poets: Alicia Ostriker, Marge Piercy and Naomi Ruth Lowinsky. It examines whether they employ any or some/all of the “emancipatory strategies” characteristic of the ecofeminist re-imagination of n...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2022
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| In: |
Worldviews
Year: 2022, Volume: 26, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 125-147 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Judaism
/ Poetry
/ Ecological movement
/ Ecofeminism
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BH Judaism KBQ North America NBD Doctrine of Creation NBE Anthropology NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics TK Recent history |
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Jewish American women poets
B ecopoetry B eco-Judaism B Ecofeminism |
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| Summary: | This article explores the ecopoetry written by three women poets who also identify themselves as Jewish poets: Alicia Ostriker, Marge Piercy and Naomi Ruth Lowinsky. It examines whether they employ any or some/all of the “emancipatory strategies” characteristic of the ecofeminist re-imagination of nature and human relationships with the natural world, seeking to answer several questions: How far can these poems be considered part of eco-Judaism? Does the fact that their authors are women also make them ecofeminist works? Does the poets’ Jewish feminist identity contribute to their ecopoetic call for ecological change? |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5357 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Worldviews
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685357-02601003 |