Scheherazade's daughters

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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 Kingsolver ("Animal Dreams, The Poisonwood Bible, " and "Prodigal Summer"), and Ruth Ozeki ("My Year of Meats" and "All over Creation"). Bennett also analyzes ecofeminism in autobiography and memoir in Terry Tempest Williams "Refuge, " Janisse Ray s "Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, " and Sandra Steingraber s "Living Downstream." Lastly through Isabel Allende s "House of the Spirits, " Ana Castillo s "So Far from God, " and Toni Morrison s "Beloved, " Bennett investigates how magical realism can spread the positive ideas of ecofeminism. This groundbreaking book dissects the power of literature to convert minds and hearts in a direction that has the potential, like Scheherazade s stories, to change our world for the better.