Call your "mutha'" : a deliberately dirty-minded manifesto for the earth mother in the Anthropocene / Jane Caputi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caputi, Jane, author.

Series:

Heretical thought.

Heretical Thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmentalism--Social aspects.

Environmentalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour).

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

This text engages with the Earth Mother, a complex figure recognizing the power to give life and death, and speaking to the communal destiny with all living things. Specifically, Jane Caputi rejects misogynist and colonialist stereotypes, and examines the potency of the Earth Mother in order to deepen awareness of how our relationship to the Earth went astray and what might be done to address this. She looks at contemporary narratives and artwork to consider the ways in which that potency has already reasserted itself into our political and popular culture.

Contents:

Introduction: In the name of the "mutha'"

What's going on?

The dirty/earthy mother

The gods we worship

The Anthropocene is a motherfucker

Color Mother Nature gone

"Feed the green"

"Word is born"

Call (on) your "mutha'"

Coda: "Gather and vote."

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-090273-6

0-19-090274-4

0-19-090272-8