"From explorations of motherhood to climate fiction, women are setting the tone in climate literature and action."
"The Yale Climate Connections bookshelf for March, also known as Women’s History Month, began to take shape when I saw the announcement for “Mother Creature Kin: What We Learn from Nature’s Mothers in a Time of Unraveling” by Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder. The early April release, I realized, would be the sixth title published on motherhood and climate change in the last two years. (Four of the other five have appeared, individually, in previous bookshelves.)
To be the best of my knowledge, these six titles have never been presented together. I do so now solely for the purpose of a calling attention to this remarkable convergence. By comparison, I cannot think of a single title on fatherhood and climate change, let alone six. (In 2021, however, Yale Climate Connections did produce an audio story on the “Climate Dads” support group in Philadelphia.)
But this set of facts comports perfectly with what I have observed in the sustainability courses I have co-taught and the sustainability minors I have advised at my university: Women make up 75-90% of the students."
Michael Svoboda reviews for Yale Climate Connections March 13, 2025.
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