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 ReadingBrain-candy that isn’t
I read an awful lot of textbooks for classes. I’m fortunate in that most of them are fascinating, but there does come a point where…
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…
Continue ReadingTwo tasty chicken dishes! :)
Once a week we have friends over for some tabletop gaming, and I provide dinner — it is, in fact, one of the two meals…
Continue ReadingEmbodiment through dancing & drumming
Women’s appreciation of embodiment is not new — simply (deliberately?) forgotten in a more androcentric world. As it slowly re-emerges within society as well as…
Continue ReadingCrockpottery: Lemon Herb Roasted Chicken
Yay, another hugely successful and very simple crockpot meal! This recipe created a moist, delicious chicken where the meat was so tender that it really…
Continue ReadingTwo books by Rosemary Radford Ruether
Next is American Christian feminist theologian-scholar Rosemary Radford Ruether’s 2005 Goddesses & the Divine Feminine: A Western Religious History. Ruether’s writing is clear and easy…
Continue ReadingThe Campbell “Boogie on the Bayou!” street fair
I love being able to stack up automatic posts ahead of time! :) Had a really fun time at the “Boogie on the Bayou” festival…
Continue ReadingFeminism, the Mastery of Nature, & Humane Livestock Handling
I have written previously (though not well) on Australian ecofeminist activist and intellectual Val Plumwood’s 1994 Feminism and the Mastery of Nature. She offers a…
Continue ReadingThree Perspectives on Ecofeminism
In 1993 a book emerges which provocatively probes ecofeminism’s epistemology during its analysis of the historical roots of the oppressive conflation of women with nature.…
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