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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Reweaving the World
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…
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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…
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In 1998, ecofeminist thealogian Carol P. Christ’s Rebirth of the Goddess: Finding Meaning in Feminist Spirituality presents a living and embodied, woman-centered thealogy of Goddess…
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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Once a week we have friends over for some tabletop gaming, and I provide dinner — it is, in fact, one of the two meals…
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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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And now for something completely different… ! As you may not know, I am not much into housekeeping of any sort. Years ago, when I…
Continue ReadingGuilty pleasures on stolen time
Passing thoughts during the days which bubble up between readings: Crockpots Crockpots are incredibly cool! While I’m familiar with them, I’d never used them to…
Continue ReadingIs there organized religion after patriarchy? pt. 3
After Patriarchy: Feminist Transformations of the World Religions, edited by Paula M. Cooey, William R. Eakin, & Jay B. McDaniel Judaism Continuing with the quick…
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