Redemption Of Women And Nature Under Masculine Domination

This paper aims to interpret the modern female American writer Jane Smiley's representative work A Thousand Acres from ecofeminist perspective. Ecofeminists hold the common view that natural forces possess female quality, because they symbolize fertility and productivity. Females are closer to nature than males. However, at present, women and nature are to some extent under masculine domination. So women's identity needs reconstruction and the environment needs better protection. This thesis begins with the interrelationship between women and nature, and puts forward three similarities they own—abilities to breed lives, strong inner desire and the masculine domination they are under. Then taking the plots in A Thousand Acres as an example, the endurance Ginny and Rose have experienced and the tremendous changes in the ecological environment are elaborated. Finally, reasonable suggestions concerning reconstruction of women's identity and environmental protection are proposed, and the ideal future of harmonies between human and nature, between men and women is stated.