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Terry Tempest Williams is a remarkable contemporary American writer, conservationist and environmental activist.Her masterpiece, Refuge records the suffering of her female families, caused by atomic testing in the Nevada Test Site. Meanwhile, the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge is flooded, resulting in millions of birds’ displacement. Confronting with tragedies of both women and nature, Tempest women turned to nature and women themselves for comfort, strength and spiritual space,fighting against the oppression. By associating women with nature in cultural ecofeminism, it reminds people of their relationship with nature and tries to arouse people’s awareness of environmental protection.
Terry Tempest Williams is a remarkable contemporary American writer, conservationist and environmental activist. Her masterpiece, Refuge records the suffering of her female families, caused by atomic testing in the Nevada Test Site. Meanwhile, the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge is flooded, resulting in millions of birds’ displacement. Confronting with tragedies of both women and nature, Tempest women turned to nature and women themselves for comfort, strength and spiritual space, fighting against the oppression. By associating women with nature in cultural ecofeminism, it reminds people of their relationship with nature and tries to arouse people’s awareness of environmental protection.