Open AccessEcofeminism in Thea Astley’s Drylands
Author(s) -
Zhang Xiu-qing
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
advances in language and literary studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2203-4714
DOI - 10.7575/aiac.alls.v.11n.3p.42
Subject(s) - ecofeminism , emancipation , feminism , independence (probability theory) , sociology , perspective (graphical) , gender studies , economic independence , environmental ethics , art , political science , visual arts , law , philosophy , politics , development economics , statistics , mathematics , economics
Australian multi-award-winning novelist Thea Astley was a great writer in promoting feminism and ecofeminism in her later years’ writing. This paper analyzes her fourth Miles Franklin award novel — Drylands from the perspective of ecofeminism. From analysis, it draws a conclusion that Astley makes a lot of efforts to raise readers’ awareness that her women characters’ liberation depends on their economic independence but it will be a hard and long way to achieve the final emancipation of women and total equality between women and men.