Scheherazade’s Daughters

Scheherazade, the storyteller of 1001 Arabian Nights , recounts stories literally to save her people, and in Scheherazade’s Daughters , Barbara Bennett explores how contemporary female authors attempt to save their own world by telling compelling stories that disseminate ideas of justice and equality for all living things, a philosophy called ecofeminism. Bennett examines how ecofeminism works in works by Margaret Atwood ( Surfacing, The Handmaid’s Tale, and Oryx & Crake ), Barbara Kingsolve