Scheherazade's Daughters: The Power of Storytelling in Ecofeminist Change

Scheherazade, the storyteller of , recounts stories literally to save her people, and in , Barbara Bennett explores how contemporary female authors attempt to save their own world by telling compelling stories that disseminate ideas of justice and equality for all living things, a philosophy called ecofeminism. Bennett examines how ecofeminism works in works by Margaret Atwood ( and ), Barbara Kingsolver ( ), and Ruth Ozeki ( ). Bennett also analyzes ecofeminism in autobiography and memoir in Terry Tempest Williams' Janisse Ray's and Sandra Steingraber's Lastly through Isabel Allende's Ana Castillo's and Toni Morrison's Bennett investigates how magical realism can spread the positive ideas of ecofeminism. This groundbreaking book dissects the power of literature to convert minds and hearts in a direction that has the potential, like Scheherazade's stories, to change our world for the better.