The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Department of English

Booklist on Ecology, the Natural World,
Preservationism and Related Topics:

Amory, Cleveland. Man Kind? N Y, Dell, 1980.

Anderson, Chris and Lex Runciman. A Forest of Voices: Reading and Writing the Environment. L: Mayfield, 1995.

Anderson, Lorraine, ed. Sisters of the Earth: Women’s Prose and Poetry about Nature. NY: Vintage, 1991.

Callicott, J. Baird and Michael P. Nelson, eds. The Great New Wilderness Debate. Athens: U Georgia, 1998.

Calthorpe, Peter. The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community and the American Dream. Princeton Architectural Press, 1993.

Coetzee, J. M. The Lives of Animals, ed. Amy Gutman. Princeton U, 1999.

Daly, Mary. Gyn/ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism. Boston, 1978. Day, David. The Doomsday Book of Animals. NY, Viking, 1980.

Diamond, Irene and Gloria Feman Orenstein, eds. Reweaving the World: The Emergence of Ecofeminism. San Francisco, 1990.

Douglas, Roy. Land, Peoples and Politics: A History of the Land Question in the United Kingdom, 1878-1952. L 1976

Dowie, Mark. Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century. MIT Press, 1995.

Eckersley, Robyn. Environmentalism and Political Theory: Towards an Ecocentric Approach. UC London, 1992.

Gaard, Greta. Ecofeminism: Women, Animals, Nature. Temple, 1993.

Gold, Mark. Living Without Cruelty. Basingstoke, Hants, 1988.

Gottlieb, Robert. Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement. Washington, D. C., 1993.

Haraway, Donna. Primate Visions: Gender, Race and Nature in the World of Modern Science. NY: Routledge, 1989.

Hardy, Dennis. From New Towns to Green Politics: Campaigning for Town and Country Planning, 1946-1990. L, 1991.

Hogan, Linda. Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World. NY, 1996.

Howard, Ebenezer. Garden Cities of To-morrow. L, 1902 (First published as To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform, L, 1898). See also Robert Beevers, The Garden City Utopia: A Critical Biography of Ebenezer Howard. NY: St. Martin’s, and Stanley Buder, Visionaries and Planners: The Garden City Movement and the Modern Community. NY: Oxford, 1990.

Keller, Evelyn Fox. Reflections on Gender and Science. Yale U, 1985.

Kroeber, Karl. Ecological Literary Criticism: Romantic Imagining and the Biology of Mind. Columbia, 1994.

La Duke, Winona. Last Standing Woman. Stillwater, Minn., 1997. (autobiography)

Leopold, Aldo. Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There. NY: Oxford, 1949.

Mander, Jerry. In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations. San Francisco, 1991.

Marshall, Peter. Nature’s Web: Rethinking Our Place On Earth. NY, 1994.

Martinez-Alier, Juan. Ecological Economics: Energy, Environment and Society. Oxford: Blackwell, 1987.

Mellor, Mary. Breaking the Boundaries: Towards a Feminist Green Socialism. L: Virago, 1992.

Merchant, Carolyn. Earthcare: Women and the Environment. NY: Routlege, 1995.

Miller, Mervyn. Raymond Unwin: Garden Cities and Town Planning. Leicester U Press, 1992.

Morrison, Roy. Ecological Democracy. Boston, 1995.

Nash, Roderick Frazier. The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics. Madison: U Wisconsin, 1995.

Pepper, David. The Roots of Modern Environmentalism. NY, 1984. Also Eco-Socialism: From Deep Ecology to Social Justice. L: Routledge.

Ponting, Clive. A Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations. 1991, repr. NY: Penguin, 1993.

Ritvo, Harriet. The Animal Estate:The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age. Harvard, 1987.

Ruether, Rosemary Radford. Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing. San Francisco: Harper, 1992.

Shiva, Vandana. Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge. Boston, 1997.

-----. Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development. L, 1998.

Singer, Peter. Animal Liberation. 2nd edition. NY: Random, 1990.

-----, ed. In Defense of Animals. NY: Harper, 1986.

----- and Lori Gruen. Animal Liberation: A Graphic Guide. L 1987

----- and Jim Mason. Animal Factories. NY, 1980.

----- and Tom Regan, eds. Animal Rights and Human Obligations. 2nd ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1989.

Regan, Tom. The Case for Animal Rights. U California, 1983.

Ryder, Richard D. Animal Revolution: Changing Attitudes Toward Speciesism. Oxford: Blackwell, 1989.

Salt, Henry. Animals’ Rights Considered in Relation to Social Progress. 1892. Repr. State Mutual Book, 1985.

Samuels, Gayle Brandow. Enduring Roots: Encounters with Trees, History and the American Landscape. Rutgers U, 1999.

Schweickart, Patrocinio P., ed. Women, Ecology and the Environment. NWSA Journal, special issue, 9.3 (Fall 1997).

Silko, Leslie Marmon. Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit: Essays on Native American Life Today. NY: Simon and Shuster, 1996. Also Sacred Water, Tuscon, Arizona, 1993 (autobiography) and Storyteller (short stories).

Spretnak, Charlene. The Resurgence of the Real: Body, Nature, and Place in a Hypermodern World. NY: Addison-Wesley, 1997. Also The Spiritual Dimension of Green Politics and Green Politics: The Global Promise, with Fritjof Capra.

Soja, Edward W. Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory. L, 1989.

Sturgeon, Noel. Ecofeminist Natures: Race, Gender, Feminist Theory and Political Action. Routledge, 1997.

Taylor, Bron Raymond, ed. Ecological Resistance Movements. SUNY Albany, 1995.

Ward, Colin. Utopia: Human Space. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Education, 1974.

Warren, Karen. “Feminism and Ecology: Making Connections.” Environmental Ethics 9.1 (1981).

Williams, Raymond. The Country and the City. L, 1973.

-----. “Socialism and Ecology.” L: Calverts North Star Press.

Williams, Terry Tempest. Desert Quartet: An Erotic Landscape, Illus. Mary Frank. NY, 1995.

-----. An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field. NY: Vintage, 1994.

Wise, Steven M. Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals. NY: Harper, 2000.

Worster, Donald. Nature’s Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas. 2nd ed. Cambridge U, 1994. (first published 1977).

Zimmerman, Michael E. Contesting the Earth’s Future: Radical Ecology and Postmodernity. Berkeley: U California, 1994.


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