This brief and ambitious book explores our relationship to nature through the images we use when we talk about Mother Nature. Katherine M. Using the crucial tools of religious studies, psychology and gender studies, Roach uses various aspects of nature as "mother" and what this idea means for the way we deal with the natural world.

The first part, Nature as a Good Mother, discusses the idea that nature is, or is, like a persistent and caring mother who provides and maintains life. In studying the slogan "green" "love your mother," Roach wonders about the effects of women and the environment that refer to the sex of the female in nature. We are asked to look at the associations carried by "motherhood" and "motherhood" within a culture still constituted by patriarchal authority.

It refers to the danger of such a pro-environmental slogan if the "mother" invokes the abundant and self-serving provider that does not need any care. Part II, "Nature as a Bad Mother," views the idea of ​​reversing nature as a violent, threatening, and humiliating mother. This picture is most often seen when humans and technology are depicted as a counterfeit nature. Here Roch is based on theological contemplation of analyzing this contradiction to the revealed nature of the imagination that casts humans as gods.

The contributions of ecological theology and ecological psychology are explored in the "Heart of Darkness" perspective. Finally, the third part, "Nature by the Name of Hurt", explores the possibilities and dilemmas of environmental healing inherent in the image of nature as the mother of her wounds and is now seeking healing..

I want that book.