July 2020

Page 50

July 2020

50

ISSN 2278 0742

Eco Feminism in the Selected Poems of Phyllis Webb, Judith Wright and Mamang Dai Ummae Saba Shabnam

Abstract

This Article strives to present a comprehensive understanding of the Eco Feminism in the selected poems of Phyllis Webb, Judith Wright and Mamang Dai. Profound discussions have been made on the connection and intense relation between Ecology and feminism, poems on Eco feminism and the need of conservation of nature and protection of women rights. This Research is a representation of the fact that poetry is not used just for aesthetic pleasure but it much more beyond it. The poems of Phyllis Webb, Judith Wright and Mamang Dai serves as a literary tool in serving deep insight and solving social issues like ecology, problems related to nature like droughts, Earthquakes, Sea Rampages and temperature in Desert areas etc. This article also explores how the studies on ecology test for suppression of women leads to the exploitation of nature. This glorifies the readers with the light of knowledge that both women and nature must be handled with care otherwise the results are irreparable and unavoidable.

Keywords: Ecology, feminism, nature and its effects Introduction

This Article is an effort to realize the relationship between the gender inequalities and Nature exploitation in literary contexts. This is an attempt to study how the concept of Eco feminism is reflected in the poems of the Phyllis Webb, Judith Wright and Mamang Dai. The paper attempts to study the connection of women and nature by studying the elements of nature and the theories of Eco feminism as the term Eco feminism itself is representation of two theoretical enterprises like Feminism and Eco

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