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