Category:Eco-Feminism
Ecofeminism is a critique of patriarchy as it relates to its impact on the natural world and human beings. See also Women as well as Ecological and Social Utopias for literary explorations.
Eco-Feminist authors list.
Smash patriarchy, save the planet interview with Ensler. 3/13.
Carol J. Adams (1951-) is an American author and animal rights activist. She is the author of several books, including The Sexual Politics of Meat (1990) and The Pornography of Meat (2004), focusing in particular on what she argues are the links between the oppression of women and that of non-human animals.
Gloria Steinem on deep ecology. (video 7/11)
M.Mies and V.Shiva, Ecofeminism
Donna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs and Women
Carolyn Merchant, classic;The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution see also Radical Ecology and Earthcare : women and the environment (video)
Karen Warren Ecological Feminism
The Ohlone Way , Margolin, Malcolm, book about Spanish and Indian contact (video interview).
As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art by Rebecca Solnit.
Riane Eisler: The Chalice and the Blade (1987). Eisler relates how critical the roles of cooperation and sexual equality have been in the evolution of human culture -- not only to correct the idea that might-makes-right makes history, but also to point out the direction humankind might follow from here. Susan Griffin: Woman and Nature (1978). A powerful exposition of how women and the natural world have been seen as versions of each other -- and violated in strangely similar ways.
Goddesses and Monsters: Women, Myth, Power, and Popular Culture by Jane Caputi The essays in Goddesses and Monsters recognize popular culture as a primary repository of ancient mythic energies, images, narratives, personalities, icons, and archetypes. Together, they take on the patriarchal myth, where serial killers are heroes, where goddesses--in the form of great white sharks, femmes fatales, and aliens--are ritually slaughtered, and where pornography is the core story underlying militarism, environmental devastation, and racism. They also point to an alternative imagination of female power that still can be found behind the cult devotion given to Princess Diana and animating all the goddesses disguised as popular monsters, queen bitches, mammies, vamps, cyborgs, and sex bombs.(DJ)
Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her by Susan Griffin Derrick Jensen says "This extraordinary and extraordinarily beautiful book is one of the most important books I’ve ever read. Using the words of scientific philosophers themselves (but putting them into a beautifully-written, poetic context) Susan Griffin brilliantly shows how the logic of science is fundamentally anti-life, and anti-woman. She juxtaposes this to some of the most wonderful embodied prose you could ever hope to read, and moves the reader from this alienated state of modern civilized people and back into our bodies. Words cannot do this book justice."
Gossips, Gorgons and Crones: The Fates of the Earth by Jane Caputi Gossips, Gorgons & Crones is the first comprehensive analysis of nuclear-age culture and the accompanying return of female Powers. Based in feminist, pre-patriarchal, and Native American philosophies, this book provides a biting critique of patriarchal practices, myths, and values, including family values.
