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

Name: Environmentalism in Popular Culture Gender, Race, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Natural
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ISBN: 9780816525812

ISBN-10: 0816525811

ISBN-13: 9780816525812

Edition: 2009

Authors: Noï¿½l Sturgeon

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In this thoughtful and highly readable book, Noël 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…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Publication date: 12/12/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Developing a Global Feminist Environmental Justice Analysis to Understand the Politics of the Natural



The Politics of the Natural in U.S. History and Popular Culture



Naturalizing Frontiers



Frontiers of Nature: The Ecological Indian in U.S. Film



"Forever New Frontiers": Extraterrestrialism and U.S. Militarism in Space



Naturalizing Reproduction



"The Power Is Yours, Planeteers!" Race, Gender, and Sexuality in children's Environmentalist Popular Culture



Penguin Family Values: The Nature of Planetary Environmental Reproductive Justice



Naturalizing Globalization



Planetary Security, Militarism, and the Nature of Violence



Purity and Privilege or Justice and Sustainability? Natural Consumers in the Global Economy


Notes


References


Index