Environmentalism in Popular Culture: Gender, Race, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Natural

by Noel Sturgeon

Book Overview

In this thoughtful and highly readable book, No l 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816525811
• ISBN13: 9780816525812
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"