Body and mind, science and technology, matter and earth are entangled and inseparable:
When the earth is damaged, the body and mind also hurt. Humans who transform matter for
their own desires, at the same time, are transformed in reverse by the power of such matter.
Bodily Natures - which won the 2011 American Society for Literature and Environment (ASLE)
Ecological Criticism Award - focuses on the concept of 'transcorporeality' in aspect of science,
climate, and environment.
 
The ecologist and feminist theorist Stacy Alaimo, who is currently drawing a lot of attention in
American and European academia, combines new materialism with ecology and feminism, along
with examples as interesting as its unique methodology. Going further beyond being just simple,
it further describes cases of various diseases, such as breast cancer in women and lung cancer
in the working class, from various literary works. By doing so, this book locates our bodies
'within' the environment - not 'outside' - exploring a new path for ecology and feminism.
 
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Acknowledgements
 
Chapter 1 Introduction: Bodily Nature
Chapter 2 Eros and X-rays: Body, Class, and 'Environmental Justice'
Chapter 3 Invisible Materials: The Science of Environmental Justice
Chapter 4: Memoirs of the Body: Science, Autobiography, and the Material Self
Chapter 5: Aberrant Agents: Science, Culture, and Chemical Complex Hypersensitivity
Chapter 6 The Evolution of Genetics, the Ability of Matter to function, and Posthuman
Environmental Ethics Each Shown in Science Fictions
 
References | Index