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Frankenstein and Feminism: Contemplating The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein
Author(s) -
COLLINGS TANYA
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
anthropology of consciousness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.117
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1556-3537
pISSN - 1053-4202
DOI - 10.1111/j.1556-3537.2011.01040.x
Subject(s) - memoir , enlightenment , viewpoints , feminism , rationalism , natural (archaeology) , sociology , philosophy , literature , art history , psychoanalysis , history , gender studies , epistemology , art , psychology , archaeology , visual arts
Theodore Roszak's compelling parable, The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein , provides an (eco)‐feminist view of the “Night of the Living Dead Model” and suggests that only the equal union of “masculine” and “feminine” energies will help us resolve the current eco‐crisis. This article further explores the consequences of the highly masculinized post‐Enlightenment rationalism as demonstrated in Roszak's novel. Although this article agrees that there is a dangerous imbalance between natural/spiritual and scientific/rational viewpoints, it also stresses that the extreme genderification of these energies is potentially problematic.