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Earthcare : Women and the Environment
by Carolyn Merchant List Price: $19.99 Our Price: $15.99 You Save:
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1995)
Routledge;
ISBN: 0415908884 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.73 x 8.95 x 6.01

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Ecofeminism : Women, Culture, Nature
by Karen Warren (Editor), Nisvan Erkal (Editor) List Price: $24.95
Our Price:
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Paperback - 480 pages (April 1997) Indiana Univ Pr; ISBN: 0253210577
;
Dimensions
(in inches): 1.01 x 9.24 x 6.14
Reviews : The author, Karen J. Warren (warren AT macalester.edu) ,
November 30,
1998
What motivated me to write this book. Dear readers, "Ecofeminism"
has become
both
a popular grassroots activist movement and an exciting area of
feminist
scholarship
internationally during the last two decades. As an ecofeminist
philosopher, I
have
been especially interested in the conceptual, ethical, and theoretical
connections
between the oppression of women and other human Others, and the
domination and
degradation of the natural world. That concern undergirds all of my
own writing.
But
I also have learned and benefitted from individuals who have a
different
starting
point or perspective on ecofeminism--whether it be the arts, politics,
community
organizing, science, social science, or theology. In ECOFEMINISM:
WOMEN,
CULTURE,
NATURE I wanted to bring a variety of scholarly ecofeminist concerns
to an
interested lay audience by addressing three sets of issues: the
empirical data
(including experiences of environmental racism, environmental sexism,
and
environmental classism) which have motivated ecofeminist praxis and
theory; the
relevance of ecofeminist insights to a wide variety of academic
disciplines
(e.g.,
anthropology, biology, communication studies, chemistry, development
studies,education, English, leisure studies, political science); and
hitherto
largely unexplored philosophical perspectives on ecofeminism (e.g.,
ecofeminism
and
Kant, ecofeminism and Wittgenstein, ecofeminism and the Western
philosophical
canon). By addressing these three sets of issues, I hoped to provide
both a
broad
and a varied scholarly introduction to ecofeminist praxis and theory.
I welcome
your comments on the book generally, or on particular articles
contained in the
book. I am currently completing a book entitled ECOFEMINISM: A WESTERN
FEMINIST
PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE ON WHAT IT IS AND WHY IT MATTERS, your
comments
(particularly about what you found interesting or puzzling, what you
found
useful,
or what you would have liked included or expanded) could be very
helpful as I
prepare the final manuscript of this new book project. Thank you for
expressing
an
interest in reading about ecofeminism. For me, ecofeminism is an
exciting,
dynamic,
inclusive feminism which analyzes and responds to the multiple forms
of
oppression
and domination that women and other Others, including nonhuman
nature),
experience.
I hope you find some of the projects of ecofeminism illuminating,
engaging, and
compelling. --This text refers to the hardcover edition of this title

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Reweaving the World : The Emergence of Ecofeminism
by Irene Diamond, Gloria Orenstein (Editor) List Price: $16.00 Our
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Paperback
(October 1990) Sierra Club Books; ISBN: 0871566230 ; Dimensions (in
inches):
0.90 x
8.99 x 6.00
Reviews Synopsis This breakthrough collection signals the coming
together of
the
ecology, feminist and women's spirituality movements--three major
cultural
forces
that share a mutual, life-affirming concern for the well-being of the
earth.
Booknews, Inc. , September 1, 1990 A collection of articles, essays,
and poetic
prose pieces by 26 of the foremost writers, scholars, activists,
artists, and
spiritual teachers of ecofeminism, an emergent synthesis of the
environmental,
feminist, and women's spirituality movements. Annotation copyright
Book News,
Inc.
Portland, Or.

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Gaia & God : An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing
by Rosemary Radford Ruether List Price: $16.00 Our Price: $12.80 You
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Reprint
edition (June 1994) Harper San Francisco; ISBN: 0060669675 ;
Dimensions (in
inches): 0.88 x 7.96 x 5.27
Reviews Synopsis Now in paperback--the most significant work of an
internationally
acclaimed author and teacher. Sifting through the legacy of Christian
and
Western
history, Ruether traces the development of beliefs and ethics that
define our
relationship with each other and the earth. At once provocative and
inspiring,
the
author's insights assert an ecofeminist vision of a healed world. In
her most
significant work to date, Rosemary Radford Ruether sifts through the
legacy of
the
Christian and Western cultural heritage - the beliefs and stories that
have
influenced our relationships with each other and with the earth - to
illuminate
future models for earth healing. "Ecological healing is a theological
and
psychic-spiritual process," writes Ruether. Although she examines the
Western
patriarchal tradition from an ecofeminist perspective, Ruether insists
that
"classical traditions did not only sacralize patriarchal hierarchy
over women,
workers, and the earth. They also struggled with what they perceived
to be
injustice
and sin and sought to create just and loving relations between people
in their
relation to the earth and to the divine. Some of this effort to name
evil and
struggle against it reinforced relations of domination and created
victim-blaming
spiritualities and ethics. But there are also glimpses in this
heritage of
transformative, biophilic relationships. These glimpses are a precious
legacy
that
needs to be separated from the toxic waste of sacralized domination."
Ruether
sees
the work of eco-justice and the work of spirituality as interrelated,
the inner
and
outer aspects of one process of conversion and transformation. In
juxtaposing
the
terms Gaia and God in the title of this book, she explores crucial
issues
surrounding the relationship between the living planet, earth, and our
Western
religious traditions. Gaia is the Greek earth goddess, and a term
adopted by
biologists such as James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis in reference to
their thesis
that the entire planet is a living system behaving as a unified
organism.
Growing
numbers of people have begun to see the Jewish and Christian male
monotheistic
God
as a destructive concept that rationalizes alienation from and neglect
of the
earth,
while Gaia, as an immanent divinity, is seen as the all-nurturing
earth mother
goddess. Ruether points out that merely replacing a transcendent male
deity with
a
female one does not answer the "god-problem." What we need, in her
view, is a
vision
of a much more abundant and creative source of life. "A healed
relation to each
other and to the earth calls for a new consciousness, a new symbolic
culture and
spirituality." writes Ruether. "We need to transform our inner psyches
and the
way
we symbolize the interrelations of men and women, humans and earth,
humans and
the
divine, the divine and the earth." Gaia and God is a major critical
work by an
internationally acclaimed writer and teacher. It is a sweeping
ecofeminist
theology
that argues for healing relationships between men and women, classes
and
nations,
and humans and the earth. --This text refers to an out of print or
unavailable
edition of this title. From the Publisher Internationally acclaimed
author
and
teacher Rosemary Radford Ruether presents a sweeping ecofeminist
theology that
illuminates a path toward "earth-healing"--a whole relationship
between men and
women, communities and nations. "This is theology that really
matters."--Harvey
Cox

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The Idea of Wilderness : From Prehistory to the Age of Ecology
by Max Oelschlaeger Our Price: $20.00 Usually ships in 24 hours
Paperback -
(February 1993)
Reviews Nature and Ecology Editor's Recommended Book Former U.S.
Secretary of
the
Interior James Watt may have seemed only a passing nightmare in his
day, but he
acted out of a very old tradition of American attitudes toward the
land and its
proper use. So did Henry David Thoreau. So did Edward Abbey. Americans
have been
arguing about the environment since the first boats landed at
Jamestown, and by
all
appearances they'll keep right on arguing into the next millennium.
The Idea of
Wilderness packs the centuries-old story into a lively narrative with
its full
complement of heroes--Thoreau, John Muir, Aldo Leopold--a few choice
villains of
the
robber-baron and bureaucrat persuasion, and a few middling souls like
Gifford
Pinchot, founder of the United States Forest Service. Max Oelschlaeger
writes
persuasively on the philosophical and religious underpinnings of
various
environmental positions, showing that indeed there's nothing new under
the sun.

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Losing Ground : American Environmentalism at the Close of the
Twentieth Century
by Mark Dowie List Price: $15.95 Our Price: $12.76 You Save: $3.19
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Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours. Paperback (November
1996) MIT
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ISBN: 0262540843 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.42 x 8.20 x 5.70
Reviews : From Booklist , April 1, 1995 Dowie is an award-winning
journalist
with a
penchant for radical inquiry. He has tackled the American
environmental movement
out
of frustration, believing that it should have accomplished much more
than it
has.
Why environmentalism has failed to live up to its potential occupies
much of
Dowie's
rigorous analysis. He begins with a scathing history of the movement's
first
stirrings, an effort by well-heeled, elitist white men to maintain
wilderness
areas
for recreational purposes. The next phase pitted conservationists
interested in
"wise use" against the more prescient preservationists. Dowie tracks
the rapid
devolution of "wise use" into abuse during the Reagan years and the
foolish
fallback
tactics of the green movement, which bureaucratized itself into little
more than
a
direct-mail machine. As critical as Dowie is, he does see hope in the
next phase
of
this phoenix-like movement. He believes that a genuinely democratic
form of
environmentalism--linked to civil rights, focused on urban as well as
rural
environmental issues, and involving women and men of all races and
cultures--is
possible and promising. Let's hope so. Donna Seaman Copyright 1995,
American
Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the
hardcover
edition
of this title
Synopsis : Losing Ground unveils the inside stories behind American
environmentalism's undeniable triumphs and its quite unnecessary
failures.
Journalist Mark Dowie, who broke the stories on the Dalkon Shield and
the Ford
Pinto, delivers an insightful, informative, and often damning account
of the
movement many historians and social commentators at one time expected
to be this
century's most significant. Illustrations.
Synopsis : The journalist who broke the stories on the Dalkon shield
and Ford
Pinto
offers a critique of the mainstream American environmental movement,
from its
conservationist origins to the advent of the ""fourth wave"" of
today's
environmentalists. UP. --This text refers to the hardcover edition of
this title
Synopsis : Journalist Dowie weaves a spellbinding tale, from the
movement's
conservationist origins as a handful of rich white men's hunting
clubs, through
the
evolution in the 1960s and '70s into a powerful political force that
forged
landmark
environmental legislation. --This text refers to the hardcover edition
of this
title
Customer Comments : A reader , October 5, 1996 Critique of
mainstream's
blindsiding
of the environment. Perhaps the greatest weakness of individual
environmentalists
and the environmental "movement" is the absence of public
self-examination.
While
political insiders may clearly see the difference between the National
Wildlife
Federation and the Sierra Club, the public has few resources to gauge
them.
Opening
the doors is author Mark Dowie, a champion of local activism and the
integration
of
environmental issues with other social movements. Tracing the origins
and
bureaucratization of the environmental movement, Dowie criticizes the
most
recent
surge of co-option, the "third wave" or economics-based
environmentalism.
"Regulatory flexibility and 'constructive engagement' with industry
have created
some business heroes, but they can be counted on one hand," he writes.
"The
rest,
unfortunately, need to be regulated." This is not to say this book is
a rant
against
environmental business. There are no heroes or villains in this book,
which
makes it
a rarity in the environmental lexicon. Instead, Dowie criticizes the
corporate
structure of environmental groups, and portrays each organization with
their
individual merits and flaws. Compromising Local Leadership Dowie
reminds readers
of
the decision by the Natural Resources Defense Council and Cultural
Survival to
negotiate with the Ecuadorian government over oil drilling in the
Yasuni
Reserve.
Arguing that oil drilling would be inevitable, and "without consulting
the
Huaorani
people or the appropriate Ecuadorian environmental organizations,
[NRDC's]
Scherr
and Kennedy struck a deal: Conoco could drill on the Huaoroni reserve
in return
for
a $10-million donation to an Ecuadorian foundation created by NRDC and
Cultural
Survival, an indigenous-rights groups based in Cambridge,
Massachusetts." The
NAFTA
debate saw essentially the same argument made: free trade is
inevitable, so
environmentalists have to go along and get what they can. NAFTA's
"It's a
win-win-win situation" argument was accepted by various environmental
groups. In
the
long run, the agreement and side provisions may indeed provide
resources and
rewards
for cross-border environmental planning. But Dowie draws back to
review the
consequences of increased commerce. "It should be clear to any
environmental
thinker
that free trade can only lead to the globalization of massive,
consumer- based
economies that are, in the long run, whatever the legislated
safeguards,
ecologically destructive. But mainstream environmental officials
evidently don't
think a lot about the distant future. Like the corporations they have
come to
resemble, they tend to be occupied with the day-to-day imperatives of
strategy,
competition and survival." From a parochial viewpoint, it would have
been
interesting had Dowie included a critique of the way in which many
D.C. groups
finally "discovered" environmental problems along the border and how
most of
these
organizations lost interest in the border after NAFTA passed. It would
also be
interesting to document the criticism the mainstream groups made of
those local
groups that disagreed with them on the potential consequences of
NAFTA. At the
Center and Stumbling The problem with mainstream environmental groups
stems from
their decisions in the 1980s to focus energies on power plays in
Washington,
D.C.,
instead of reaching out to state and community organizations. Had the
focus
remained
on "reaching out to state, local and regional organizations," he
writes, "the
American environmental movement today would be much stronger and more
consequential
than it is. An explosive critical mass of national activism could have
been
formed.
Instead, a relatively harmless and effete new club appeared." Dowie
suggests
that
the disproportionate ratio of funding (70 percent to 30 percent)
between
mainstream
and grassroots groups remains an obstacle for community organization,
suggesting
that "a 20-point shift, of $200 million would change the complexity of
the
entire
environmental community." The publication of Losing Ground offers
readers an
insightful view of relations among environmental groups, many of which
demand
transparency in government and business circles, but not among
themselves or
their
colleagues. This is one of the most valuable guidebooks and is one of
the year's
must-reads.


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