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Nature Environmental Conservation & Protection

Beyond Mothering Earth

Ecological Citizenship and the Politics of Care

by (author) Sherilyn Macgregor

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2007
Category
Environmental Conservation & Protection
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774812023
    Publish Date
    Jan 2007
    List Price
    $32.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774812016
    Publish Date
    May 2006
    List Price
    $32.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774840958
    Publish Date
    Nov 2011
    List Price
    $30.95

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Description

In Beyond Mothering Earth, Sherilyn MacGregor argues that celebrations of “earthcare” as women’s unique contribution to the search for sustainability often neglect to consider the importance of politics and citizenship in women’s lives. Drawing on interviews with women who juggle private caring with civic engagement in quality-of-life concerns, she proposes an alternative: a project of feminist ecological citizenship that affirms the practice of citizenship as an intrinsically valuable activity while allowing foundational aspects of caring labour and natural processes to flourish. Beyond Mothering Earth provides an original and empirically grounded understanding of women’s involvement in quality-of-life activism and an analysis of citizenship that makes an important contribution to contemporary discussions of green politics, globalization, neoliberalism, and democratic justice.

About the author

Awards

  • Short-listed, Book Award, Canadian Women’s Studies Association

Contributor Notes

Sherilyn MacGregor received her PhD from the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto. She is currently a lecturer in the School of Politics, International Relations, and Philosophy at Keele University in the UK.