丽贝卡.哈丁.戴维斯就在其第一部小说《铁磨房的生活》里具有前瞻性地传达了生态女性主义运动所拥护和倡导的理念和哲思。在深刻揭露工业文明给生态环境带来种种破坏的同时,她也深刻地探讨了男权社会中女性的命运。通过描述女主戴波拉回归自然获得新生,戴维斯旨在传递只有与自然和谐共处,解构父权制中的男性与女性、人类与自然的二元对立,才能获得生的延续。 Rebecca Harding, in his first novel Iron Mill Life, proactively conveyed the ideas and philosophies advocated by the ecofeminist movement. While deeply exposing the destruction of the ecological environment caused by the industrial civilization, she also profoundly explored the fate of women in patriarchal society. Describing the return of nature as a newborn by describing the return of actress Deborah, Davis intends to convey the continuity of life only through the harmonious coexistence with nature and the deconstruction of the binary opposition between men and women in patriarchy and between mankind and nature.