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
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