In the context of eco-feminist criticism woman and nature fact in the works of Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain and Thirteen Moons

In a world we live in with the reality that nature and woman are under domination, the significance "eco-feminism" concept increases progressively from past to present, too. Eco-feminism is a term which is uttered by woman communities which protesting against female exploitation and appropriate women oppressed by male-dominant society in 1970s. Eco-feminism, fundamentally develops a resistance against racist, sexist, social class discrimination and capitalist male-dominant policies. To eco-feminists, there is a relationship between devastation or destruction of nature by human for the sake of capitalist profits and patriarchal cruelty with political theories or social pressures women suffer from. For this reason, ecofeminism aims of criticizing the institution and rules of patriarchy and revealing the mistakes of patriarchy. In this sense, main purpose and aim of this study is to analyze and examine the "woman" and "nature" terms in terms of Eco-feminist criticism perspective in Cold Mountain and Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier which are blend with historical events and love affairs and to interpret the determined concepts identified by eco-feminism. Another aim is to analyze female characters in these novels how they are in relationship with male dominated system and nature regarding setting, time, and events in novels and to interpret them with the term eco-feminism. In the first part of the study information about eco-feminism and criticism is presented and different aspects of this criticism are emphasized. In the other chapters, events and characters in the novels are examined and analyzed in terms of eco-feminist perspective. Key Words: Eco-feminism, patriarchy, woman, domination, nature.