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Earth Muse: Feminism, Nature, and Art

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This is a remarkable book. I first read it for a seminar on religion and environmentalism in college. In it, Ms. Bigwood manages to successfully interweave several interesting and inter-related narratives about human sexuality and the environment: her own brand of ecofeminism, a more-or-less graspable interpretation of Martin Heidegger's philosophy (no mean feat, creating this) and its environmentalist ramifications, a critique of the rather technical Aristotelian framework that has grounded Western (patriarchal) thought about human relations with technology and the environment, and a meditation on her own pregnancy and the sculpture of Brancusi. Each of these would be worth reading on its own (and could be done, as the sections are fairly clearly demarcated), and her writing is sensitive and beautiful. However, the text is much more rich as she has arranged it, with the different threads interwoven. Some parts will be easier to read than others, but I'd be surprised to see writing on Heidegger or Aristotle that is as accessible as this while simultaneously *doing something* with the philosophy of each.