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Acknowledgements xvii
Preface: Communities, collaborations and chaos xix
The process of the book xxi
Introduction: Ecofeminism and the seeds of time 1
Ecofeminism past and present 2
Ecofeminism in/and early modern studies 11
1 Ecofeminism matters 17
Domesticated beings 18
Knowing things 22
A substance of subject-objects 26
Historical practice and present crisis 32
2 Of mouseholes and housefires: Transcorporeal domesticity 39
‘Noysome and pestilent things’ 42
Pest control: The scratching cat and ‘the smallest monstrous mouse’ 51
(Beyond) pest control: Fleas, flies and other creeping creatures 58
Between small and great, soft and fierce: The hearth 63
After the fire 73
3 How we know any thing 77
Nothing is everything 78
Unknowability 89
‘Howe'er you come to know it’ 98
The power of and in uncertainty 103
4 The dynamic object 105
The indifference of stone 105
Dynamism in the garden 109
(Boys as) women as plants 117
Petrarch in the produce aisle 128
Conclusion: Nature, stir: Ecofeminists in the archive 131
Healing nature 131
Living nature 140
Appendix: Excavating nature 143
Notes 147
Bibliography 171
Index 185