Introduction -- Root of ecofeminism: ecoféminisme / Barbara Gates -- "The women are speaking": literature as theoretical critique / Patrick D. Murphy -- Toward an ecofeminist standpoint theory: bodies as grounds / Deborah Slicer -- Ecofeminist literary criticism: reading the orange / Josephine Donovan -- "Buffalo gals won't you come out tonight": a call for boundary-crossing in ecofeminist literary criticism / Karla Armbruster -- "Skin dreaming": the bodily transgressions of Fielding Burke, Octavia Butler, and Linda Hogan / Stacy Alaimo -- Ecocritical Chicana literatures: Ana Castillo's "virtual realism" / Kamala Platt -- Rethinking dichotomies in Terry Tempest Williams's refuge / Cassandra Kircher -- In search of common ground: an ecofeminist inquiry into Christa Wolf's work / Deborah Janson -- Grassroots ecofeminism: activating Utopia / Cathleen Mcguire and Colleen Mcguire -- Deep response: an ecofeminist, dialogical approach to introductory literature classrooms / John Paul Tassoni -- Hiking without a map: reflections