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…
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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 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 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 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 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…
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