Woodsqueer

Woodsqueer Crafting a Sustainable Rural Life

Paperback (31 Mar 2022)

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Publisher's Synopsis

  • A spiritual connection with the land, nature, and animals (both wild and domesticated) resulting in a respectful, reverant ecology.
  • A queering of the traditional idealist couple's back-to-the-land narrative through lesbian eyes replete with plaid flannels and power tools.
  • Heightened and sustained attention to the ecology of nature (deer, other forest denizens) and agriculture (chickens, goats)
  • Faithful and respectful depiction of rural Maine, and northern New England (VT and HN)
  • Intrepid sportswoman, polar explorer, and writer Gretchen Legler tackles her greatest challenge yet - rural, self-sufficient domesticity
  • Cottagecore trending in popular culture
  • Audience, professionals in these fields: organic farming, wild foods, psychology and social work, gardening, literature, writing
  • General readers interested in the following: women and adventure, feminism, memoir, women's stories about place, women and farming, organic farming, gardening, lesbian life, foraging and wild foods, spiritual healing, healing fro trauma, back-to-the-land movement, homesteading, Maine, rural life, goats, raising chickens, making maple syrup, long-term lesbian relationships, LBGTQ, Cottagecore

  • Book information

    ISBN: 9781595349590
    Publisher: Trinity University Press
    Imprint: Trinity University Press
    Pub date:
    DEWEY: 338.109741
    DEWEY edition: 23
    Language: English
    Number of pages: 280
    Weight: 381g
    Height: 203mm
    Width: 152mm
    Spine width: 33mm