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Ecocritical aesthetics: language, beauty and the environment

terms ‘gender’ and ‘environment’, this section will be the reason why socio-cultural scholars are keen to read this book. Only those interested in policy would turn to a book where they can find material that links population, health, and environment through sexual stewardship (Jade Sasser), property rights and economic empowerment (Seema Arora-Jonsson) or gender differences in (party political) membership and participation (Stewart Jackson). These are all vitally important considerations, and to be able to connect these considerations with research focussed on gender and on environment means that future policymakers are less likely to legislate in favour of the ubiquitous ‘straight, white, man-in-the-street’ and more likely to muddy the waters with more nuanced and complex understandings of the relationships between rights and access, gender and environment, existing law and future possibilities. The final section of the book – Futures – offers five essays which reflect the broader scope of the book in its entirety, and which scope out concerns and issues that indicate the trajectory of future considerations of gender of environment. Tellingly, these essays maintain a focus upon the relationship between theory and action, and upon ethical relations with our more-than-human others. These two spheres of action, more than any others, will prove to be the ‘take-away’ that future scholars reference when reflecting upon how gender and environment were considered in the age of Trump, Brexit, #FridaysForFuture and Extinction Rebellion. As such, this book is very much of its time, a point of departure for NOW, rather than a retrospective analysis of how we got here. For this, the book is invaluable. The very final essay in the collection ‘Welcome to thewhite (m) Anthropocene? A feminist-environmentalist critique’ by Giovanna Di Chiro, warns against any complacency in the spheres where environmental and gender relations seem to offer so much hope, by reminding us that white privilege continues to obscure difference when it suits – blind spots have strategic usefulness for neo-liberal democracies in the age of climate emergency, or conversely that white privilege continues to use difference to blatantly discriminate in ways that allow the turn towards the Right in global politics to become normalised. Overall, this meaty handbook – far too big for even the most generously sized hand – is worth its weight (and its heavy!) for the breadth of entanglements between gender and environment that it highlights. The selection of essays showcases intelligent and accessible academic writing which will be of interest to anyone looking for the connections and contaminations between two such massive categories as Gender and Environment.