Ecofeminism Book Chapters

Adams, C. ed. (1993) ECOFEMINISM AND THE SACRED
Introduction by Carol J Adams
Part One - REVISIONING RELIGION
Ecofeminism - Symbolic and Social Constructions of the Oppression of Women and the Domination of Nature by Rosemary Radford Ruether
Sin, Nature and Black Women’s Bodies by Delores S. Williams
Talk about the Weather - The Greening of Eschatology by Catherine Keller
Acting with Compassion - Buddhism, Feminism and the Environmental Crisis by Stephanie Kaza
Feminist Judaism and Repair of the World by Judith Plaskow
An Earthly Theological Agenda by Sallie McFague
Ganga - Purity, Pollution and Hinduism by Lina Gupta
Part Two - ENVISIONING ECOFEMINISM
A Feminist Philosophical Perspective on Ecofeminist Spiritualities by Karen J. Warren
Ecofeminist Consciousness and the Transforming Power of Symbols by L. Teal Willoughby
The Good Mother - From Gaia to Gilead by Ellen Cronan Rose
For All Those who were Indian in a Former Life by Ellen Cronan Rose
Toward an Ecofeminist Ethic of Shamanism and the Sacred by Gloria Feman Orenstein
Ecology is a Sistah’s Issue Too - The Politics of Emergent Afrocentric Ecowomanism by Shamara Shantu Riley
Part Three - EMBODYING ECOFEMINIST SPIRITUALITIES
Animal, Vegetable and Mineral - The Sacred Connection by Carol Lee Sanchez
Nuclear Power and the Sacred - Or why a Beautiful Woman is Like a Nuclear Power Plant by Jane Caputi
New Moon over Roxbury - Reflections on Urban Life and the Landby Rebecca Johnson
Earthbody and Personal Body as Sacred by Charlene Spretnak
Natural Resources - A conversation between Byllye Avery and Mary E. Hunt
Taking Life or “Taking on Life”? - Table Talk and Animals by Carol J. Adams and Marjorie Procter-Smith
Ecofeminist Education - Adolescence, Activism and Spirituality by Zoe Weil

Adams, C & Donovan, J (eds.) (1997) ANIMALS AND WOMEN
Introduction by Carol J Adams and Josephine Donovan (editors)
Part One- Sexism/Speciesism: Interlocking Oppressions Sexist Words, Specieist Roots by Joan Dunayer
Exploring the Boundaries: Feminism, Animals, and Science by Lynda Birke
Woman-Battering and Harm to Animals by Carol J Adams
License to Kill: An Ecofeminist Critique of Hunters’ Discourse by Marti Kheel
Speech, Pornography, and Hunting by Maria Comninou
Abortion and Animal Rights: Are they Comparable Issues? By Gary L. Francione
Part Two- Alternative Stories
Beyond Just-So Stories: Narrative, Animals and Ethics by Linda Vance
Thinking Like a Chicken: Farm Animals and the Feminine Connection by Karen Davis
Of Wolves and Women by Diane Antonio
The Power of Otherness: Animals in Women’s Fiction by Marian Scholtmeijer
Birds Don’t Sing in Greek: Virginia Woolf and "The Plumage Bill" by Reginald Abbott
Appendix: "The Plumage Bill" by Virginia Woolf
Taming Ourselves or Going Feral? Toward a Non-patriarchal Metaethic of Animal Liberation by Brian Luke
Speciesism, Racism, Nationalism…Or the Power of Scientific Subjectivity by Susanne Kappeler
Bibliography of Feminist Approaches to Animal Issues

Bhavnani, Kum-Kum (Ed.).  (2001).  FEMINISM AND ‘RACE’.
Environmental Management, Equity and Ecofeminism: Debating India’s Experience by Bina Agarwal
People or Population: Towards a New Ecology of Reproduction by Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva

Carr, Glynis (Ed.)  (2000).  NEW ESSAYS IN ECOFEMINIST LITERARY CRITICISM.
“’Not By Politics Alone’: Gender and Environmental Justice in Karen Tei Yamasita’s Tropic of Orange” by Julie Sze
“A Saintly Reading of Nature’s Text: Alice Walker’s Meridian” by Charlotte Zoë Walker
“Intersections of Nature and the Self in Chicana Writing” by Benay Blend
“Land and Hawaiian Identity: Literary Activism in Kiana Davenport’s Shark Dialogues” by Mayumi Toyosato
“Strategies for a Cross-Cultural Ecofeminist Ethics: Interrogating Tradition, Preserving Nature” by Greta Gaard
“The Birth of a Batterer: Isaac Babel’s ‘My First Goose’” by Steven G. Kellman
“The Pastoral Rapture of Eula in The Hamlet” by Janice C. Crosby
“Persephone’s Daughters: Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres and Classical Myth” by Glynis Carr
“Writing the Real: Virginia Woolf and an Ecology of Language” by L. Elizabeth Waller
“’The Road of Ice’: Motion, Language, and Silence in Marianne Moore” by Carol H. Cantrell
“Ecocritical Uses of the Erotic” by Catrin Gersdorf

Coupe, Laurence (Ed.).  (2000).  THE GREEN STUDIES READER: FROM ROMANTICISM TO ECOCRITICISM.
A Poststructuralist Approach to Ecofeminist Criticism by Karla Armbruster
Ecofeminist Dialogics by Patrick Murphy
Naturalized Women and Feminized Nature by Kate Soper

Diamond, I. & Orenstein, G. (1990) REWEAVING THE WORLD - THE EMERGENCE OF ECOFEMINISM
Part One - Histories and Mysteries: In the Beginning
Ecofeminism: Our roots and flowering by Charlene Spretnak
How to heal a Lobotomy by Brian Swimme
The Gaia Tradition and the partnership future: An ecofeminist manifesto by Riane Eisler
The Origins of God in the Blood of the Lamb by Sally Abbott
The Eleusinian Mysteries: Ancient Nature Religion of Demeter and Persephone by Mara Lynn Keller
The Woman I love is a Planet, The Planet I love is a Tree by Paula Gunn Allen
Rethinking Theology and Nature by Carol P. Christ
Part Two - Reweaving The World: Reconnecting Politics and Ethics
Power, Authority and Mystery: Ecofeminism and Earth-based Spirituality by Starhawk
Curves along the Road by Susan Griffin
Ecofeminsm and Feminist Theory by Carolyn Merchant
Healing The Wounds: Feminism, Ecology and the Nature/Culture Dualism by Ynestra King
Ecofeminism and the Politics of Resistance by Lee Quinby
Ecofeminism and Deep Ecology: Reflections on Identity and Difference by Marti Kheel
Deep Ecology and Ecofeminism: The Emerging Dialogue by Michael Zimmerman
Searching For Common Ground: Ecofeminism and Bioregionalism by Judith Plant
Part Three - Healing Ourselves: Healing The Planet
Toward a Womanist Analysis of Birth by Arisika Razak
The Place of Women in Polluted Places by Lin Nelson
Development as a project of Western Patriarchy by Vandana Shiva
Babies, Heroic Experts and a Poisoned Earth by Irene Diamond
Goddess in the Metropolis: Reflections on the Sacred in an Urban Setting by Irene Javors
Women, Home and Community: The Struggle in an Urban Environment by Cynthia Hamilton
The Evolution of an Ecofeminist by Julia Scofield Russell
Daughters of Growing Things by Rachel L. Bagby
Women Against Wasting the World: Notes on Eschatology and Ecology by Catherine Keller
Perspective or Escape? Ecofeminist Musings on Contemporary Earth Imagery
by Yaakov Jerome Garb
Artists as Healers: Envisioning Life-giving Culture

Dobson, Andrew and Robyn Eckersley (Eds.).  (2006).  POLITICAL THEORY AND THE ECOLOGICAL CHALLENGE. 
Plumwood, Val.  “Feminism”.

Gaard, G (1993) ECOFEMINISM: WOMEN, ANIMALS, NATURE
Gaard, G "Living Interconnections with Animals and Nature"
Birkeland, J "Ecofeminism: Linking Theory and Practice"
Gruen, L "Dismantling Oppression: An analysis of the connections between woman and animals"
Vance, L "Ecofeminism and the politics of reality"
o'Loughlin, E "Questioning Sour Grapes: Ecofeminism and the United Farm Workers Grape Boycott"
Donovan, J "Animal Rights and Feminist Theory"
Heller, C “For the Love of Nature: Ecology and the Cult of the Romantic”
Huey-li Li “A cross-cultural critique of Ecofeminism”
Adams, CJ “The Feminist Traffic in Animals”
Kheel, M “From Heroic to Holistic Ethics: The Ecofeminist Challenge”
Gaard, G "Ecofeminism and Native American Cultures: Pushing the limits of cultural imperialism"

Gaard, G & Murphy, P (1998) ECOFEMINIST LITERARY CRITICISM

Introduction by Greta Gaard and Patrick D. Murphy

A Root of Ecofeminism: Ecofémenisme by Barbara T. Gates

“The Women are Speaking”: Contemporary Literature as Theoretical Critique by Patrick D. Murphy

Toward an Ecofeminist Standpoint Theory: Bodies as Grounds by Deborah Slicer

Ecofeminist Literary Criticism: Reading the Orange by Josephine Donovan

“Buffalo Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonight”: A Call for Boundary-Crossing in Ecofeminist Literary Criticism by Karla Armbruster

“Skin Dreaming”: The Bodily Transgressions of Fielding Burke, Octavia Butler, and Linda Hogan by Stacy Alaimo

Ecocritical Chicana Literature: Ana Castillo’s “Virtual Realism” by Karmala Platt

Rethinking Dichotomies in Terry Tempest Williams’ Refuge by Cassandra Kircher

In Search of Common Ground: An Ecofeminist Inquiry into Christa Wolf’s Work by Deborah Janson

Grassroots Ecofeminism: Activating Utopia by Cathleen McGuire and Colleen McGuire

Deep Response: An Ecofeminist, Dialogic Approach to Introductory Literature Classrooms by John Paul Tassoni

Hiking without a Map: Reflections on Teaching Ecofeminist Literary Criticism by Greta Gaard

Nelson, Lise and Joni Seager (Eds.).  (2005).  A COMPANION TO FEMINIST GEOGRAPHY. 

PART V: ENVIRONMENT

“Listening to the Landscapes of Mama Tingo: from the ‘Woman Question’ in Sustainable Development to Feminist Political Ecology in Zambrana-Chacuey, Dominican Republic” by Dianne Rocheleau

“Gender Relations beyond Farm Fences: Reframing the Spatial Context of Local Forest Livelihoods” by Anoja Wickramasinghe

“The New Species of Capitalism: An Ecofeminist Comment on Animal Biotechnology” by Jody Emel and Julie Urbanik

“Siren Songs: Gendered Discourses of Concern for Sea Creatures” by Jennifer Wolch and Jin Zhang

“Geographic Information and Women’s Empowerment: A Breast Cancer Example” by Sara McLafferty

“Performing a ‘Global Sense of Place’: Women’s Actions for Environmental Justice” by Giovanna Di Chiro

Plant, J (1989) HEALING THE WOUNDS
Forward by Petra Kelly
Toward a New World: An Introduction by Judith Plant
Part One - Remembering Who We Are: The Meaning Of Ecofeminsm
Split Culture by Susan Griffin
The Ecology of Feminism and the Feminism of Ecology by Ynestra King
A New Movement, A New Hope: East wind, West wind and the Wind from the South
by Corinne Kumar D’Souza
Mama Coyote Talks to the Boys by Sharon Doubiago
Women/Wilderness by Ursula K. LeGuin
Part Two - Healing all our Relations: Ecofeminist Politics
Poem: Tampons by Ellen Bass
First Mother and the Rainbow Children by Anne Cameron
Women Act: Women and Environmental Protection in India by Pamela Philipose
Speaking for the Earth: The Haida way by Gwaganad
Development, Ecology and Women by Vandana Shiva
A Power of Numbers by Rachel Bagby
From Healing herbs to Deadly drugs: Western’s medicine’s war against the natural world
by Marti Kheel
Part Three - She is alive in You: Ecofeminist Spirituality
Poem: A story of beginnings by Starhawk
Invoking the grove by Deena Metzgar
Toward an Ecofeminist Spirituality by Charlene Spretnak
The Give and the Take by Dale Colleen Hamilton
Toward an Ecological-Feminist theory of Nature by Rosemary Radford Ruether
The Juice and the Mystery by Margot Adler
Sacred Land, Sacred Sex by Delores LaChapelle
Lakshmi Ashram: A Gandhian perspective in the Himalayan foothills
Feminist Earth-based Spirituality and Ecofeminism by Starhawk
Part Four - The Circle Is Gathering: Ecofeminist Community
Poem: Lost Arrows and the Feather People by Ursula K. LeGuin
Survival on Earth: The Meaning of Feminism by Dorothy Dinnerstein
Awakening to the Ecological Self by Joanna Macy
Wings of the Eagle: A conversation with Marie Wilson
The Subjective side of Power by Margo Adair and Sharon Howell
Community: Meeting Our Deepest Needs by Helen Forsey
Consensus and Community: An Interview with Caroline Estes
The Circle Is Gathering by Judith Plant

Ruether, RR. (1996) WOMEN HEALING EARTH: THIRD WORLD WOMEN ON ECOLOGY, FEMINISM AND RELIGION
Introduction by Rosemary Radford Ruether
PART 1 - LATIN AMERICA
1. The Trinity and human Experience- An Ecofeminist Approach by Ivone Gebara (Brazil)
2. In Us Life Grows- An Ecofeminist Point of View by Mercedes Canas (El Salvador)
3. Latin America’s Poor Women- Inherent Guardians of Life by Gladys Parentelli (Venezuela)
4. Foreigners- A Multi-Cultural Dialogue by Janet W. May (Costa Rica)
5. After Five Centuries of Mixing, Who Are We?- Walking with our Grandmother’s Feet by Mary Judith Rees (Chile)
PART 2 - ASIA
6. Let Us Survive- Women, Ecology and Development by Vandana Shiva (India)
7. Toward a Feminist Eco-Theology for India by Aruna Gnananason (India)
8. The World as The body of God- Feminist Perspectives on Ecology and Social Justice by Gabriele Dietrich (India)
9. Re-claiming Earth-Based Spirituality- Indigenous Women in the Cordillera by Victoria Tauli-Corpuz (Philippines)
10. The Forbidden Tree and the Year of the Lord by Sun Ai Lee-Park (Korea)
PART 3 - AFRICA
11. Earth-Healing in South Africa- Challenges to Church and Mosque by Denise Ackerman and Tahira Joyner (South Africa)
12. Shona Women and the Mutupo Principle by Tumani Mutasa Nyajeka (Zimbabwe)
13. Revisiting Traditional Management of Indigenous Woodlands by Sara C. Mvududu (Zimbabwe)
14. The Chisumphi Cult- The Role of Women in Preserving the Environment by Isabel Apawa Phiri (Malawi)
15. The Gikuyu Theology of Land and Environmental Justice by Teresia Hinga (Kenya)

Sterba, James P. ed. (2000).  EARTH ETHICS: INTRODUCTORY READINGS ON ANIMAL RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS.

The Power and Promise of Ecological Feminism by Marti Kheel

From Heroic to Holistic Ethics: the ecofeminist challenge by James P. Sterba

Warren, K ed. (1994) ECOLOGICAL FEMINISM
Introduction by Karen J. Warren
Is Ecofeminism Feminist? by Victoria Davion
Wrongs Of Passage - Three Challenges to the Maturing of Ecofeminism by Deborah Slicer
Rethinking Again - A Defense Of Ecofeminist Philosophy by Douglas J. Buege
The Ecopolitics Debate and the Politics of Nature by Val Plumwood
Ecofeminism, Deep Ecology, and Human Population by Christine J. Cuomo
The Limits Of Partiality - Ecofeminism, Animal Rights, and Environmental Concern by David K. Johnson & Kathleen R. Johnson
Toward an Ecofeminist Moral Epistemology by Lori Gruen
Restructuring the Discursive Moral Subject in Ecological Feminism by Phillip Payne
Nature/Theory/Difference - Ecofeminism and the Reconstruction of Environmental ethics by Jim Cheney
Toward an Ecofeminist Peace Politics by Karen J. Warren

Wall, Derek.  (1994).  GREEN HISTORY: A READER IN ENVIRONMENTAL LITERATURE, PHILOSOPHY, AND POLITICS.
“Eco-feminism” by Derek Wall.

Warren, K ed. (1996) ECOLOGICAL FEMINIST PHILOSOPHIES
Introduction by Karen J. Warren - “Ecological Feminist Philosophies: An overview of the issues”
Ecofeminist theory and Grassroots Politics - by Stephanie Lahar
The Power and Promise of Ecological Feminism - by Karen J. Warren
Toward Thoughtful Ecofeminist Activism - by Christine Cuomo
Loving Your Mother: On the Woman : Nature Relation - by Catherine Roach
Toward an Ecological Ethic of Care - by Deane Curtin
Caring about Nature: Feminist Ethics and the Environment - by Roger J. H. King
Your Daughter or your Dog? A feminist assessment of the Animal Research issue - by Deborah Slicer
Ecofeminism and the Eating of Animals - by Carol J. Adams
Deep Ecology versus Ecofeminism: Healthy differences or Incompatible Philosophies?
- by Robert Sessions
Nature, Self, and Gender: Feminism, Environmental Philosophy and the Critique of Rationalism
- by Val Plumwood
When Lives become Logic Problems: Nuclear Deterrence , an Ecological Feminist Critique
- by Victoria Davion
Women and Language in Susan Griffin’s Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her
- by Carol H. Cantrell
Feminism and Ecology: On the Domination of Nature - by Patricia Jagentowicz Mills
Ground, Pivot, Motion: Ecofeminist Theory, Dialogics and Literary Practice - by Patrick D. Murphy
Ecological Feminism and Ecosystem Ecology - Karen J. Warren and Jim Cheney
Also published as “Ecological Feminist Philosophies” (1996) Edited by Karen J. Warren Indiana University Press (A Hypatia Book) Indianapolis

Warren, K ed. (1997) ECOFEMINISM- WOMEN, CULTURE, NATURE

Part One-Taking Empirical Data Seriously
1-Taking Empirical Data Seriously: An Ecofeminist Philosophical Perspective by Karen J Warren
2-Ecofeminism Through an Anticolonial Framework by Andy White
3-Women of Color, Environmental Justice, and Ecofeminism by Dorceta E. Taylor
4-Women's Knowledge as Expert Knowledge: Indian Women and Economic Development by Deane Curtain
5-Epistemic Responsibility and the Inuit of Canada's Eastern Arctic: An Ecofeminist Appraisal by Douglas Buege
6-Women and Power by Petra Kelly
7-Learning to Live with Differences: The challenge of Ecofeminist Community by Judith Plant
8-"The Earth is the Indian's Mother, Nhandecy" by Eliane Potiguara
Part Two - Interdisciplinary Perspectives
9-Leisure: Celebration and Resistance in the Ecofeminist Quilt by Karen M. Fox
10-Ecofeminism and Work by Robert Alan Sessions
11-Ecofeminism and Children by Ruthanne Kurth-Schai
12-Ecofeminism and Meaning by Susan Griffin
13-Ecofeminist Literary Criticism by Gretchen T. Legler
14-Rhetoric, Rape and EcoWarfare in the Persian Gulf by Adrienne E. Christiansen
15-The Nature of Race: Discourses of Racial Difference in Ecofeminist Discourse by Noel Sturgeon
16-Ecofeminism in Kenya: A Chemical Engineer's Perspective by Joseph R. Loer
17-Keeping the Soil in Good Heart:Women, Weeders, the Environment, and Ecofeminism by Candice Bradley
18-Remediating Development through an Ecofeminist Lens by Betty Wells & Danielle Wirth
19-Scientific Ecology and Ecological Feminism: The Potential for Dialogue by Catherine Zabinski
Part Three-Philosophical Perspectives
20-Androcentrism and Anthropocentrism: Parallels and Politics by Val Plumwood
21-Revaluing Nature by Lori Gruen
22-Self and Community in Environmental Ethics by Wendy Donner
23-Kant and Ecofeminism by Holyn Wilson
24-Women-Animals-Machines:A Grammar for a Wittgensteinian Ecofeminism by Wendy Lee Lampshire
25-Radical Nonduality in Ecofeminist Philosophy by Charlene Spretnak


MISCELLANEOUS

Evans, J (1993) "Ecofeminism and the politics of the Gendered Self" in Dobson, A & Lucardie, P (eds.) The Politics of Nature

Murphy, P (1991) “Prolegomenon for an ecofeminist dialogics” in Feminism, Bakhtin and the Dialogic by Bauer & McKinstry (eds.) Albany State Uni. Of New York Press

Ortner, S (1974) “Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture?” in Woman, Culture and Society by Rosaldo & Lamphere (eds.) Stanford, CA Stanford Uni. Press

Ross, A (1995) “Wet, Dark, and Low, Eco-Man evolves from Eco-Woman” in Feminism and Postmodernism

Russell, C & Bell, A (1996) "A Politicised Ethic of Care: Environmental Education from an Ecofeminist Perspective"in Women's Voices in Experiential Education By Warren, K (ed.) Iowa Kendall Hunt

Spretnak, C (1993) “Critical and Constructive Contributions of Ecofeminism” in Worldviews and Ecology by Tucker, P & Grim, E (eds.) Philadelphia Bucknell Press