I totally agree with you about joining together and making a significant
difference by use of powerful politics. The bickering needs to stop. We all
may have our own branch of feminist views, but I do believe we all share the
common ground about the interconnectedness between woman and nature. Let's
use our wonderful talents as woman and unite to make change. The time has
come and besides, the Earth isn't getting any better. Jennifer F.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Lori
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 1996 10:56 AM
To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT
Subject: Ecofeminism
I joined this list about a 45 days ago (mostly a lurker)...in the midst of
the controversial debating going on...(and on)...and it was not exactly what
I thought this list would bring to me...and so I used my delete button quite
a bit....not that I don't feel that good discussion isn't meaningful...it's
just that I see a world out there that is needing our help...our natural
resources being destroyed every second. I feel that our energy could be
directed in a more positive way...
I am inspired by Terry Tempest Williams, from her book, An Unspoken Hunger,
she quotes Marilynne Robinson (Mother Country):
"My greatest hope, which is a very slender one, is that we will at last find
the courage to make ourselves rational and morally autonomous adults, secure
enough in the faith that life is good and to be preserved, to recognize the
grosser forms of evil and name them and confront them. Who will do it for us?"
Terry Tempest Williams responds-
"We must do it for ourselves.
As women wedded to wilderness, we must realize that we do carry the wild
card, that our individual voices matter and our collective voice can shatter
the status quo that for too long has legislated on behalf of power and far
too little on behalf of life. We can flood Congress with our wild cards
(imagine hundreds of thousands of brightly colored cards covering the desks
of our representatives), demanding that women's issues be recognized as
health issues, as environmental issues, as issues centered around a quality
of life that touches all of us, deeply. This is the kind of politics we must
be engaged in--nothing marginal, nothing peripheral, nothing inessential,
not anymore."
Well, this is what ecofeminism embodies for me- anyone out there have any
comments? Thank you for getting through the long posting :-)
-Lori
At 10:42 AM 11/5/96 -0500, you wrote:
>ecofeminism...to refocus the subject...does anyone have any thoughts as
>to Irigaray's relationship to eco-feminism?
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