Mother / Nature: Popular Culture and Environmental Ethics

This brief but ambitious book aims to explore our relationship with nature by taking a critical look at the imagery we use when we talk about Mother Nature. Using the critical tools of religious studies, psychology, and gender studies, Catherine M. Roach examines the various manifestations of nature as "mother" and what that idea implies for the way we approach the natural world. The first part of the book, "Nature as Good Mother," examines the notion that nature is, or is like, a beneficen...