{"id":1630,"date":"2021-11-11T09:42:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T14:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/?page_id=1630"},"modified":"2021-12-13T02:10:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T07:10:27","slug":"dalilah-montesino","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/dalilah-montesino\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecofeminism: Honoring Our Sisters and Mother Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This exhibition explores the inception of ecofeminism in the context of the Second Wave Feminist Movement from the 1970\u2019s to the 1980\u2019s. Coined by French feminist Francoise d\u2019Eaubonne in 1974, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ecofeminism <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">is a branch of feminism that examines how the oppression of women is analogous to the degradation of the earth. Women and nature have an age-old association&#8211;an affiliation that has persisted throughout culture, language, and history. Ecofeminism emphasizes that the women\u2019s liberation movement and ecological destruction are inextricably linked, and that the only solution to end the rape of the earth is to dismantle the patriarchy and resurrect a culture of reciprocity. This curation includes formative ecofeminist theory of the Second Wave, such as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Woman and Nature <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">by Susan Griffin and<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Gyn\/Ecology <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">by Mary Daly both published in 1978, poetry and prose from periodicals, such as the second issue of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amazon Quarterly <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(1974)<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Heresies\u2019s <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Special Environmental issue<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(1981), and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sinister Wisdom\u2019s<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Special Native American issue (1983), and selections from the anthology <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(1981).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Dalilah Montesino<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/montesino\/woman-and-nature-interpreting-ecofeminism\/\">Woman and Nature: Interpreting Ecofeminism<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/montesino\/gynocide-the-murder-of-the-goddess\/\">Gynocide: The Murder of the Goddess<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/montesino\/i-walk-in-the-history-of-my-people-indigenous-women-as-colonized-peoples\/\">\u201cI Walk in the History of My People\u201d: Indigenous Women as Colonized Peoples<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/montesino\/the-military-industrial-complex-an-ecofeminist-lens\/\">The Military-Industrial Complex: An Ecofeminist Lens<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/montesino\/earthkeeping-earthshaking-the-legacy-of-ecofeminism-in-the-second-wave-feminist-movement\/\">&#8220;Earthkeeping\/Earthshaking&#8221;: The Legacy of Ecofeminism in the Second Wave Feminist Movement<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This exhibition explores the inception of ecofeminism in the context of the Second Wave Feminist Movement from the 1970\u2019s to the 1980\u2019s. Coined by French feminist Francoise d\u2019Eaubonne in 1974, ecofeminism is a branch of feminism that examines how the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/dalilah-montesino\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2654,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"sidebar-page.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1630","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2242,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1630\/revisions\/2242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}