1. TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS Major Themes

2. Environmental education  Formerly held job as environmental educator  Involved with environmental education with Navajo and Hopi  Children’s books: The Secret Language of Snow (1984) & Between Cattails (1985)  Element: primarily natural history

3. Nature appreciation  Love of birds (especially Refuge, 1991)  Wilderness areas (especially local desert)  Found in all of her books  Element: primarily personal experience, but also can involve philosophy of nature and spirituality

4. Engage nature actively and intimately  “Erotics of place” “How do we make love to the land?”  Especially in Red (2001)  Elements: personal experience and philosophy of nature

5. Native American culture Native sense of family and community Native relation to the earth Native imagination, myth, creativity In all this she is heir to Mary Austin Found especially in Pieces of White Shell (1984), but also Red (2001). Element: cultural ecology

6. Family Her relation to land in interwoven with relation to family The experience of loss of family (Refuge) Tension with those involved in development (various essays) Element: social-family

7. Engage politics Congressional legislation on wilderness areas Nuclear issues (atomic fallout and nuclear waste) Peace Open democracy Ecofeminist perspective on society Element: ecosocial critique and ideal

8. Spirituality Rooted in the Mormon tradition, but very unorthodox Earth-centered Informed by Native American Element: spirituality

9. Art, imagination, mysticism, creativity Artistic/mystical imagination embodied Artistic/mystical imagination and the earth Artistic/mystical imagination and spirituality (Native American, Mormon, the sacred land) Leap (2000) Elements: especially personal experience and spirituality

10. Ecofeminism Rage about patriarchy’s oppression of women and nature, in society and religion The power and value of women. Earth as feminine? Centrality of feelings & the body Interaction and intimacy, rather than distant contemplation Rejection of call for obedience; affirmation of the wild in individuals Elements: especially ecosocial critique and ideal, spirituality