UMA LEITURA ECOFEMINISTA DE ÁRVORES, JARDINS E DO ORGÂNICO EM AARON'S ROD.

Aaron's Rod is a D. H. Lawrence novel "traditionally read as doctrinally anti-feminist", according to Robert Burden. Because it is mainly an urban novel, constructed largely through male dialogue, it would seem to resist an ecofeminist reading. Yet gardens, and especially trees, recur in the novel as sites associated with women testing the troubled male selfhood of Aaron Sisson, the central character. These encounters with women and nature seem to reveal that the puzzle of Aaron's inner nature is linked to his affinity with the wild, the individuation, the resilience, the life-in-decay of outer nature. Would an ecofeminist reading of the novel offer new insights into Aaron's male unease with the otherness of women and nature as inextricably linked to the problems of his own inner nature? Can ecofeminist concepts developed by Val Plumwood, Patrick Murphy and Greta Gaard provide new readings of the novel?. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]