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The Nature of Gender
Are Juliet, Desdemona and Cordelia to their Fathers as Nature is to Culture?
in Critical Survey
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Gordana Galić Kakkonen
Gordana Galić Kakkonen
University of Split ggalic@ffst.hr
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Ana Penjak
Ana Penjak
University of Split ana.penjak@kifst.hr
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This article brings ecofeminist critical thinking to William Shakespeare's female characters: Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Desdemona in Othello, and Cordelia in King Lear. Beginning with the principal that women and nature are similar in many ways (reproductive function, discrimination, subordination, possession, violence), ecofeminism focuses on the interaction between the two. Ecofeminism grounds its beliefs in the fact that patriarchal domination gets imposed through different binary oppositions including man-woman and culture-nature categories. By applying ecofeminism's positions, the authors will provide a critical thinking of the production of socially imposed inequalities seen through Juliet, Desdemona, and Cordelia. Since out of many different publications on the topic of ecofeminism none has provided such an approach, the authors believe that the article presents an important addition to the literature on both Shakespeare and ecofeminism.