Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Genealogy of Queer Ecologies / Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands and Bruce Erickson
Part 1. Against Nature? Queer Sex, Queer Animality
1. Eluding Capture: The Science, Culture, and Pleasure of "Queer"
Animals / Stacy Alaimo
2. Enemy of the Species / Ladelle McWhorter
3. Penguin Family Values: The Nature of Planetary Environmental
Reproductive Justice / Noël Sturgeon
4. Queernaturecultures / David Bell
Part 2. Green, Pink, and Public: Queering Environmental
Politics
5. Non-white Reproduction and Same-Sex Eroticism: Queer Acts
against Nature / Andil Gosine
6. From Jook Joints to Sisterspace: The Role of Nature in Lesbian
Alternative Environments in the United States / Nancy C. Unger
7. Polluted Politics? Confronting Toxic Discourse, Sex Panic, and
Eco-Normativity / Giovanna Di Chiro
8. Undoing Nature: Coalition Building as Queer Environmentalism /
Katie Hogan
9. Fragments, Edges, and Matrices: Retheorizing the Formation of a
So-called Gay Ghetto through Queering Landscape Ecology / Gordon
Brent Ingram
Part 3. Desiring Nature? Queer Attachments
10. "The Place, Promised, That Has Not Yet Been": The Nature of
Dislocation and Desire in Adrienne Rich's Your Native Land/Your
Life and Minnie Bruce Pratt's Crime against Nature / Rachel
Stein
11. "fucking close to water": Queering the Production of the Nation
/ Bruce Erickson
12. Melancholy Natures, Queer Ecologies / Catriona
Mortimer-Sandilands
13. Biophilia, Creative Involution, and the Ecological Future of
Queer Desire / Dianne Chisholm
List of Contributors
Index
A lively conversation about sexuality, nature, and environment
Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands is Professor of Environmental Studies and Canada Research Chair in Sustainability and Culture at York University. She is author of The Good-Natured Feminist: Ecofeminism and the Quest for Democracy.
Bruce Erickson is a post-doctoral fellow in Environmental History at Nipissing University.
"Corrects the heteronormative bias that influenced environmental literature from the beginning and challenges the rigid distinctions between nature and culture." Deane Curtin, Gustavus Adolphus College "A carefully crafted and well-executed volume, this collection intervenes in several important contemporary discourses in ecology, eco-politics, and queer theory, as well as more longstanding discourses of science and history." Shannon Winnubst, Ohio State University "[V]ibrant texts, brimming with possibilities for rethinking, rereading, and reinflecting the links between perception, ontology, epistemology, politics, and ethics. ... [A]llow[s] for the possibility of further reflections on the material conditions of intellectual inquiry, and for what materialities our 'immaterial labors' might creatively enact, change, transform."--Women's Studies Quarterly
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