Using original research on ecofeminist actions and organizations, this text includes a combination of historical, ethnographic and theoretical perspectives on the key concerns of ecofeminist scholarship and environmental philosophy.

In this thoughtful and highly readable book, Noel Sturgeon illustrates the myriad and insidious ways in which American popular culture depicts social inequities as "natural" and how our images of "nature" interfere with creating solutions to environmental problems that are just and fair for all. Why is it, she wonders, that environmentalist messages in popular culture so often "naturalize" themes of heroic male violence, suburban nuclear family structures, and U.S. dominance in the world? And what do these patterns of thought mean for how we envision environmental solutions, like "green"...