Douglas A. Vakoch is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, as well as Director of Interstellar Message Composition at the SETI Institute. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Ecopsychology, and he has served as guest editor for a special issue of the journal ReVision devoted to environmental issues. Vakoch is the general editor for Berghahn Books' Ecofeminist Theory and Practice Series, which includes his own book, Ecofeminism and Rhetoric: Critical Perspectives on Sex, Technology, and Discourse (2011). His other books include Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SUNY Press, 2011), Civilizations Beyond Earth: Extraterrestrial Life and Society (Berghahn Books, 2011), Psychology of Space Exploration: Contemporary Research in Historical Perspective (NASA, 2011), On Orbit and Beyond: Psychological Perspectives on Human Spaceflight (Springer, 2012), Archaeology, Anthropology, and Interstellar Communication (NASA, 2012), and Astrobiology, History, and Society: Extraterrestrial Life and the Impact of Discovery (Springer, 2013).

Introduction. A Different Story
Douglas A. Vakoch
Chapter 1.  Ecofeminist Theories of Liberation in the Science Fiction of Sally Miller Gearhart, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Joan Slonczewski
Eric C. Otto
Chapter 2. Barbara Kingsolver's Animal Dreams: Ecofeminist Subversion of Western Myth
Theda Wrede
Chapter 3.  Reintegrating Human and Nature: Modern Sentimental Ecology in Rachel Carson and Barbara Kingsolver
Richard M. Magee
Chapter 4. Shifting Subjects and Marginal Worlds: Revealing the Radical in Rachel Carson's Three Sea Books
Marnie M. Sullivan
Chapter 5. Decadent Desire: The Dream of Disembodiment in J.K. Huysmans' A Rebours
Monique M. LaRocque
Chapter 6. "Discourse Excellent Music": Romantic Rhetoric and Ecofeminism in Mary Shelley's The Last Man
Vicky L. Adams
Afterword. Ecofeminism: The Ironic Philosophy
Jeffrey A. Lockwood

Feminist Ecocriticism examines the interplay of women and nature as seen through literary theory and criticism, drawing on insights from such diverse fields as chaos theory and psychoanalysis, while examining genres ranging from nineteenth-century sentimental literature to contemporary science fiction. The book explores the central claim of ecofeminism-that there is a connection between environmental degradation and the subordination of women-with the goal of identifying and fostering liberatory alternatives.