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Anne Dalke's picture

Here, as promised, are a couple of leads for anyone who wants to learn more about eco-feminism.

You'll find an introductory bibliography to the field,
created by the Gender and Women's Studies Librarian @ UWisconsin, @
http://womenst.library.wisc.edu/bibliogs/ecofem.html

There's an interesting webevent on Serendip on eco-feminism and its effect on women of color @
/exchange/critical-feminist-studies-2013/shainarobin/final-web-event-exploring-ecofeminism-and-its-effect-wome

Details of the feminist vegetarian restaurant I mentioned @
Bloodroot: http://www.bloodroot.com/
A Vegetarian Spot Where Feminism is a Main Course:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/17/nyregion/a-vegetarian-spot-where-feminism-is-a-main-course.html
For the Love of Food and Women: http://gaycitynews.nyc/gcn_422/fortheloveoffood.html

The ground-breaking anthropological work in this area is
Sherry Ortner. "Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture?" 1974; rpt.
Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture.
Boston: Beacon Press, 1996. 21-42; and
[Ortner explains the pan-cultural fact of universal secondary status of women
in her identification w/ something every culture devalues: "nature"
(culture "being minimally defined as the transcendence...of the natural givens of existence"...
envision[ed] ... as a small clearing within the forest of the larger natural system"]; she then
revisits the question in "So, Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture?" Making Gender. 173-180.
The Good-Natured Feminist and other book I just returned…