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- Title
An Ecofeminist and Taoist Reading of Louise Glück's A Village Life.
- Authors
Yeting Hu; Liau Wei Lin, Agnes; Muhammad, Suzana
- Abstract
Born and bred in the Western lands in the context of ecological crisis and feminist movement in the 1970s, ecofeminism views men's rule over women and human's rule over nature as two aspects of the same issue, and believes that there is an inherent connection between them. By criticizing the oppressive status of women and nature, and eliminating the dualism rooted in western patriarchy, ecofeminism aims to promote equality and harmony among all things. Taoism, an ancient Eastern philosophy with a history of thousands of years, also places great emphasis on harmony among individuals, nature, society, and the universe. Its principles of "the unity of man and nature", and balance between "Yin" and "Yang" provide philosophical support for ecofeminism which rejects dualisms and encourages wholeness and harmony. As society and economy develop rapidly, humanity faces a series of crisis, and this paper just intends to combine ecofeminism with Taoism to make an analysis on Louise Glück's poem collection of A Village Life to explore her ecofeminist consciousness and how she advocates the establishment of a diverse but harmonious world without hierarchical differences in her poems.
- Subjects
ECOFEMINISM; GLUCK, Louise, 1943-; FEMINISM; PHILOSOPHY of history; ANCIENT philosophy; POETRY collections; VILLAGES; YIN-yang; HUMANITY
- Publication
Journal of Language Teaching & Research, 2024, Vol 15, Issue 3, p815
- ISSN
1798-4769
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17507/jltr.1503.14