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Ecofeminist Connotations in Alice Munro’s The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose

Israa Haider Mohammed Mezaal Al Janabi

Volume: 16 Issue: 2 2026

Abstract:

The paper explores the ecofeminist concept in Alice Munro’s The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose, with a special concentration on the character of Rose and her life in the socially stratified and patriarchal society. The paper explores the gender inequality, marginalization of classes, and environmental situation of the intersection of the narrative. The study uses a qualitative- analytical approach to assess the narrative anthology. Based on the results, social structures, patriarchal expectations and environment that surround Rose as a person, affect her life. Munro portrays the description of domestic spaces, social setting, and natural environment to argue that the experiences of women are not alienated by the bigger structures of domination and exclusion. The research adopts the ecofeminist approach to show that, in The Beggar Maid, women, the social hierarchy problems, and symbolical position of environment are closely connected. In the end, the paper identifies to illustrate how the heroine manages to illustrate the complete the complex interaction of gender, power, and environment, which can be of interest to the modern literary research field because of the feminist and ecological problems presented in the novella.

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