Ecofeminism is a powerful means to accomplish the goal of a more peaceful, prosperous, and socially just world. Unsurprisingly, entrenched blocks to its implementation exist…
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“We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For”: a book review, part 1
Alice Walker’s 2006 book We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in A Time of Darkness is a collection of essays…
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In 2010 Wangari Maathai wrote Replenishing the Earth: Spiritual Values for Healing Ourselves and the World. Not only is this book more recent than her…
Continue ReadingWisdom worth listening to: Daughters of Mother Earth
Daughters of Mother Earth: The Wisdom of Native American Women, edited by Barbara Alice Mann, offers us a view of ecofeminism rooted in indigenous women’s…
Continue ReadingWomen & World Religions comps booklist
Later edit: This bibliography has been seriously revised and updated due to professorial input. Check out the new version here. There! That’s all the…
Continue ReadingRelational Reality & Tending the Soul’s Garden
Subtly weaving the suggestion to always perform right action — based on the sometimes unrecognized fact of personal relatedness with all life — into one’s…
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While Merchant never uses the word ecofeminism in her book, a decade later ecofeminist professors Irene Diamond and Gloria Feman Orenstein deliberately embrace it in…
Continue ReadingTwo by Starhawk: Spiral Dance & Earth Path
The potential and promise of post-patriarchal spirituality is reflected in Starhawk’s 20th anniversary edition of her pivotal, bestselling, and now classic 1979 work, The Spiral…
Continue ReadingTwo male authors: on indigenous women & permaculture
In a thought-provoking example of Talamantez’ urging to learn from indigenous peoples, East Asian scholar and religious professor Jordan Paper’s 1997 Through the Earth Darkly…
Continue ReadingWomanspirit Rising; the Bride of Death; & the Sacred Hoop
Written in the same year, Life’s Daughter/Death’s Bride by Kathie Carlson is an elegant example of both remembering and re-membering primarily the mother and daughter…
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