*本書是“外國文學研究文庫”繫列的一本。該繫列旨在將國外的文學學界的學術成果及時引進和介紹給我國外國
文學學者、學生及愛好者，反映外國文學研究領域在世界範圍的發展趨勢與前沿探索。
*該繫列英文書以原版的形式、非英文書以譯本的形式出版，並輔之以國內這一領域的資深學者撰寫的導讀，幫助
讀者把握作品的脈絡，掌握其思想要點，更全面、更深入地理解作品要義。

●Acknowledgements xvii
Preface:Communities,collaborations and chaos xix
The process of the book xxi
Introduction:Ecofeminism and the seeds of time 1
Ecofeminism past and present 2
Ecofeminism in/and early modern studies 11
1 Ecofeminism matters 17
Domesticated beings 18
Knowing things 22
A substance of subject-objects 26
Historical practice and present crisis 32
2 Of mouseholes and housefires:Transcorporeal domesticity 39
‘Noysome and pestilent things’ 42
Pest control:The scratching cat and ‘the smallest monstrous mouse’ 51
(Beyond) pest control:Fleas,flies and other creeping creatures 58
Between small and great,soft and fierce:The hearth 63
After the fire 73
3 How we know any thing 77
Nothing is everything 78
Unknowability 89
‘Howe'er you come to know it’ 98
The power of and in uncertainty 103
4 The dynamic object 105
The indifference of stone 105
Dynamism in the garden 109
(Boys as) women as plants 117
Petrarch in the produce aisle 128
Conclusion:Nature,stir:Ecofeminists in the archive 131
Healing nature 131
Living nature 140
Appendix:Excavating nature 143
Notes 147
Bibliography 171
Index 185

本書將生態女性主義用於莎士比亞評論，關注莎士比亞作品中的人類與非人類的關繫如何展現於物質和文化兩個方面，這一關繫如何在本質上與性別平等、環境正義等問題相互交集；探討了《李爾王》《麥克白》《馴悍記》《仲夏夜之夢》等作品中的男男女女，動物植物如何既共生共存又相互衝突的問題。通過生態女性主義莎評這一重讀莎士比亞的嶄新視角，本書為我們提供了不少意義的話題。