> Date sent: Wed, 21 Sep 1994 11:32:28 -0600
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> As long as we are introducing ourselves, I am Amy Daniels, a PhD candidate
> in geology. I am involved with the use of satellite imagery and geographic
> information systems. I don't have a background at all in feminist theory
> but I have an interest in the topic and in environmentalism in general. I
> hope to learn much from the people on this list. Could someone possibly
> post a list of essential reading for a beginner (any basic starting place
> would be appreciated). Anyway, hello to everyone.
>
> amy
A respons to amy@University of Texas 21st Sept. Some starting places
on reading ecofeminism that I have found useful in teaching
undergrad students:-
1. Carolyn Merchant - Radical Ecology 1993
(this is good because it includes among other things useful
further reading lists.
2.Mary Mellor - Breaking the Boundaries London, Virago 1992
(strongly anti-essentialist, elaborates an eco-socialist humanist
postion. See also article by Mellor in Environmental Politics Vol.1
No2 1992.
3. C.Spretnak & F.Capra - Green Politics Glasgow, Paladin 1985,
(Takes a basically spiritual/essentialist line now rather dated but
still representative of a position on the spectrum)
4. V.Shiva - Staying Alive London, Zed Press 1989.
(already discussed on this network)
5 Janet Biele - Rethinking Ecofeminist Politics Boston, South End
Press 1991.
(Leftist Social Ecology and a powerful critique of essentialism in
Deep Ecology and some ecofem writing)
6.Irene Diamond & Gloria Orenstein eds. - Reweaving the World: The
Emergence of Ecofeminism Sierra Club Books, 1990.
Cheers
John Ferris
University of Nottingham
Nottingham NG7 2RD
UK.
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