Eco-criticism/ecofeminism: Simply put, ecocriticism examines the relationship between literature and the natural world. Beginning in the 1960s with Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, ecocriticism engages human impact on the earth, with the outcome to improve our stewardship of earth and allow it to transform us into more mindful beings. One branch of ecocriticism is ecofeminism, which specifically examines women’s historical and contemporary relationship to the earth, examining care for the earth as a microcosm of women’s relationships to social structures. See https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/subject_specific_writing/writing_in_literature/literary_theory_and_schools_of_criticism/ecocriticism.html#:~:text=Ecocriticism%20is%20an%20umbrella%20term,a%20difficult%20term%20to%20define.&text=But%2C%20%E2%80%9Csimply%20put%2C%20ecocriticism,environment%E2%80%9D%20(Glotfelty%20xviii).