Shanti
Tue, 25 Mar 2098 17:02:34 +0100
Try a search on "environmental justice" - most of it is about race class and envioronmental quality. I personally have found the following site useful: http://www.speakeasy.org/wfp/20/Justice.html http://www.law.vill.edu/vls/journals/elj/volumes5_2/fisher.htm http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jamesher/barb.htm. The following book - if you manage to obtain a copy - is also relevant: Dumping in Dixie: Race, Clas, and Environmental Quality by Robert D. Bullard (Published by Westview Press) ---------- > From: Renee Brook Hogue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Racism and the enviornment > Date: Tuesday, March 24, 1998 9:50 PM > > Hello Everyone - > > I am a student at Bowling Green State University and a member of its > first ecofeminism class. I am putting together a presentation on racism > and the enviornment (aka envioracism, I believe...), but I am having a > hard time locating materials. If anyone out there knows of any media > materials at all, websites included on this subject it would be > extremely helpful. Thank you! > > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> > Renee Brook Hogue: That wasn't it. I slept, say: a snake > ~ Poet Masked among black rocks as a black rock > ~ Activist In the white hiatus of winter-- > ~ Artist Like my neighbors, taking no pleasure > ~ Feminist In the million perfectly-chiseled > Cheeks alighting each moment to melt > My cheek of basalt. They turned to tears, > rbhogue@ Angels weeping over dull natures, > hotmail.com But didn't convince me. Those tears froze. > Each dead head had a visor of ice. > - Syvia Plath, "Love Letter" - > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> > > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Mar 25 09:19:30 1998 Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 10:16:26 -0600 From: Gwendolyn L Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: montana Hi yall, anyone who lives in whitefish montana going to this, or anyone in/near to the south going to this? If someone IS who might be comfortable sharing ride space, please contact me! many thanks, gwendolyn griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ecofeminism: A Practical Environmental Philosophy for the 21st Century." April 2-5, 1998 The University of Montana Missoula, MT The University of Montana MA Program in Environmental Philosophy, and Women's Voices for the Earth (a Missoula based Ecofeminist activist group), in conjunction with the Environmental Studies Program and the Center for Practical Ethics at the University of Montana, announces an international conference on the future of Ecofeminism. Featured speakers include Francoise d'Eaubonne, who coined the term Ecofeminism in her 1974 work "Le feminisme ou la mort," Val Plumwood (Philosophy, University of Sydney and University of Montana), author of Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, and Joni Seager (Geography and Women's Studies, University of Vermont), author of _Earth Follies: Coming to Feminist Terms with the Global Environmental Crisis_. Other participants include: Albert Borgmann, Chris Cuomo, Victoria Davion, Irene Diamond, Greta Gaard, Lori Gruen, Marti Kheel, Andrew Light, Catriona Sandilands, Deborah Slicer, Noel Sturgeon, and Karen Warren. Attendance at the conference is open to members of the public and is free, but donations may be made to Women's Voices for the Earth. No advanced registration is required. The Conference begins Thursday, April 2 at 6:30 pm, with opening plenary presentations by d'Eaubonne, Plumwood, and Slicer in the Gallager Business Building Room 122, on the University of Montana campus. The Conference ends on Saturday, April 4, at 7:00 pm, with a closing plenary featuring Joni Seager at the Front Street Theater in Downtown Missoula. All other presentations will be given from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm on the UM campus in Jeannette Rankin Hall, Room 202. There will be a Reception and Ecofeminist Art Opening, "Encompassing Visions: Expanding the Language of Ecofeminism," at the University Center Gallery April 3, at 5:15 pm. A full conference schedule, including titles of papers and times of presentation is available via e-mail, by request. >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Mar 25 09:35:30 1998 Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 11:33:29 -0500 (EST) From: "Randi Zimmerman (CAS)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Liberal Feminist as Ecofeminist? In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> What a great question! I agree with the original post, that a liberal feminist is not an ecofeminist. The person who wrote to the contrary used Rachel Carson as an example -- well, Rachel Carson refused to be called a feminist of any kind. We should not confuse "equal opportunity" feminists who also believe in doing environmental work as ecofeminists. The ideology of liberal feminism is inherently anti-essentialist, that is, there is no inherent difference between men and women. LF's believe that oppression (against women and non-whites) can be eliminated once barriers to opportunity are removed. Environmentally this plays out in our protective legislation -- i.e. mitigation of wetlands, saving owls, etc. I do not mean to diminish this work. Working at the DEP (Dept of Environ. Protection) can be an effective avenue for change as an ecofeminist. However, most ecofeminists I know understand that they are attempting to subvert the dominant system. A liberal feminist would see this as the end all, be all of ecofeminism -- working within the system. Believing that the system will become more fair once everyone has a chance to be heard in the system. Granted the definition of ecofeminism is still in process, but the concepts that the way humans see/treat women and the way humans see/treat nature are intricately linked seems to be a common thread. From the radicals, ecofeminism seems to have elevated the "feminine" traits of care and nuturing. From the cultural feminists, ecofeminism has adopted the notion that culture shapes our identities and establishes a normative heirarchy where human/man is valued above woman/nature. Socialists have added the notion of system of domination. And finally, third wavers/woman of color has begun to define the concept of interlocking oppression. Besides attempting to legislate social change, I do not see how liberal feminism has advanced the evolving theory of ecofeminism. Well, I've rambled enough for now. Look forward to continuing the discussion. Randi Zimmerman "In the process of infinate beginnings, even immortality is mortal." -- Trinh T. Minh-ha