ECOFEMINIST STUDY OF MARGARET FULLER’S SUMMER ON THE LAKES IN 1843 Cover Image

ECOFEMINIST STUDY OF MARGARET FULLER’S SUMMER ON THE LAKES IN 1843
ECOFEMINIST STUDY OF MARGARET FULLER’S SUMMER ON THE LAKES IN 1843

Author(s): SANJAY D. PALWEKAR
Subject(s): Gender Studies
Published by: Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara
Keywords: nature; ecofeminism; materialism; development; transcendentalism; capitalism

Summary/Abstract: The present paper concerns itself with a great American feminist-writer Margaret Fuller. It is a critique of patriarchal industrial society. It is an expression of ecofeminist’s concern for environmental degradation triggered by rapid industrial and technological growth. It deals with her encounter with the external world, and her responses to the rapid material development in America. The article unfolds her concerns for humanity in general by endorsing a simple way of life, the idea which she shared with her friends Emerson and Thoreau, the great figures in American transcendentalism. This article is primarily about her delicate, feminine love for nature that she considered the only sustenance in her life.

  • Issue Year: 11/2012
  • Issue No: suppl.
  • Page Range: 163-173
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English