Notes
1. See CitationMarks and de Courtivron, New French Feminisms, 236.
2. CitationMerchant, The Death of Nature, xv.
3. See, for example, CitationStarhawk, Dreaming the Dark; and CitationChrist, Rebirth of the Goddess.
4. CitationPlumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 23.
5. See CitationBenjamin, The Bonds of Love.
6. Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 160.
7. Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 196.
8. CitationMerchant, Earthcare, 218.
9. CitationSoper, What is Nature?, 277.
10. Soper, What is Nature?, 6.
11. Soper, What is Nature?, 250.
12. Soper, What is Nature?, 32.
13. CitationNash, ‘“Embodying the Nation”’, 90.
14. For these nationalist stereotypes see, among others, CitationInnes, Woman and Nation in Irish Literature and Society 1880–1935; CitationCairns and Richards in Gender in Irish Writing, 128–37; CitationOwens Weekes, Irish Women Writers, 14–15.
15. For a particularly clear example of this, see CitationBoland's account of the conflict she experienced between her Irish nationalism and her gender in Object Lessons.
16. CitationNí Dhuibhne, The Bray House, 22.
17. CitationNí Dhuibhne, The Dancers Dancing, 145. Subsequent references will appear in parentheses in the text.
18. Nash, ‘“Embodying the Nation”’, 91.
19. CitationKristeva, Nations without Nationalism, 35.
20. CitationKristeva, Interviews, 45.
21. CitationLeland, Approaching Priests, 79. Subsequent references will appear in parentheses in the text.
22. CitationMies and Shiva, Ecofeminism, 15.