Noel Sturgeon: Environmentalism in Popular Culture : Gender, Race, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Natural

Environmentalism in Popular Culture : Gender, Race, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Natural


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In this thoughtful and highly readable book, Noel Sturgeon illustrates the myriad and insidious ways in which American popular culture depicts social inequities as ?natural and how our images of ?nature? interfere with creating solutions to environmental problems that are just and fair for all. Why is it, she wonders, that environmentalist messages in popular culture so often ?naturalize themes of heroic male violence, suburban nuclear family structures, and U.S. dominance in the world? And what do these patterns of thought mean for how we envision environmental solutions, like green? businesses, recycling programs, and the protection of threatened species Although there are other books that examine questions of culture and environment, this is the first book to employ a global feminist environmental justice analysis to focus on how racial inequality, gendered patterns of work, and heteronormative ideas about the family relate to environmental questions. Beginning in the late 1980s and moving to the present day, Sturgeon unpacks a variety of cultural tropes, including ideas about Mother Nature, the purity of the natural, and the allegedly close relationships of indigenous people with the natural world. She investigates the persistence of the myth of the frontier and its extension to the frontier of space exploration. She ponders the popularity (and occasional controversy) of penguins (and penguin family values) and questions assumptions about human warfare as ?natural.The book is intended to provoke debates, mong college students and graduate students, among their professors, among environmental activists, and among all citizens who are concerned with issues of environmental quality and social equality.

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Author: Noel Sturgeon
Number of Pages: 240 pages
Published Date: 15 Mar 2009
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Publication Country: Tucson, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780816525812
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