Abstract

Global warming is caused by human activity, which has contributed significantly to depleting natural resources to satisfy the hunger of capitalist patriarchal society. Human emissions and activities are amplifying pollution, water shortages, and famine. Thus, the article aims to examine the vulnerability of nature and women in the hands of capitalist patriarchal society in the select novels of Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Water Knife and Claire Vaye Watkins’s Gold Fame Citrus. This article is an attempt to compare the victimization of women and nature through Karren Warren’s Ecofeminism and with the concept of Gleick’s Environmental Terrorism in the select novels. The research interprets the intangibility of power through ecofeminism and also highlights the subtle ways men exercise dominance over women and nature. It highlights the significance of climate change and the nexus of internal conflict over natural resources. Furthermore, the study also aims to describe the future predicament of nature and women through these novels.