Citation:
Caldecott, Léonie, and Stephanie Leland, eds. 1983. Reclaim the Earth: Women Speak Out for Life on Earth. London: Women’s Press.
Authors: Léonie Caldecott, Stephanie Leland
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Summary:
Essays discuss nuclear proliferation, chemical pollution, land rights, childbirth, infanticide, ecology, and feminist activities around the world (Summary from Google Books).
Table of Contents:
1. The Eco-Feminist Imperative
Ynestra King
2. Unity Statement
Women’s Pentagon Action
3. Unholy Secrets: The Impact of the Nuclear Age on Public Health
Rosalie Bertell
4. The Long Death (poem)
Marge Piercy
5. Sveso Is Everywhere
Women’s Working Group, Geneva; translated and extracted from the French by Frances Howard-Gordon
6. The Politics of Women’s Health
Nancy Worcester
7. Feminism: Healing the Patriarchal Dis-Ease
Jill Raymond and Janice Wilson
8. Ask A Stupid Question (poem)
Susan Saxe
9. Feminism and Ecology: Theoretical Connections
Stephanie Leland
10. Roots: Black Ghetto Ecology
Wilmette Brown
11. Seeds That Bear Fruit: A Japanese Woman Speaks
Manami Suzuki
12. Another Country (poem)
Marge Piercy
13. Thought for Food
Liz Butterworth
14. The Power to Feed Ourselves : Women and Land Rights
Barbara Rogers
15. The Land Is Our Life: A Pacific Experience
Léonie Caldecott
16. A Micronesian Woman (poem)
Rosalie Bertell
17. Greening the Desert: Women of Kenya Reclaim Land
Maggie Jones and Wanagari Maathai
18. Greening the Cities: Creating a Hospitable Environment for Women and Children
Penelope Leach
19. Against Nuclearisation and Beyond
Statement of Sicilian women
20. For the Hiroshima Maidens (poem)
Léonie Caldecott
21. Gaea: The Earth as Our Spiritual Heritage
Jean Freer
22. He Wanine, He Whenau: Maori Women and the Environment
Ngahuia Te Awekotuku
23. All of One Flesh: The Rights of Animals
Norma Benney
24. The Mothers Do Not Disappear
Marta Zabaleta; translated by Jackie Rodick
25. Invisible Casualities: Women Servicing Militarism
Lesley Merryfinch
26. Alternative Technology: A Feminist Technology?
Chris Thomas
27. Safety and Survival
Margaret Wright
28. Birth: The Agony or the Ecstasy?
Caroline Wyndham
29. A New Form of Female Infanticide
Manushi Collective
30. Saving Trees, Saving Lives: Third World Women and the Issue of Survival
Anita Anand
31. Time for Women: New Patterns of Work
Sheila Rothwell
32. Personal, Political and Planetary Play
33. The Warp and the Weft: The Coming Synthesis of Eco-Philosophy and Eco-Feminism
Hazel Henderson
34. Prayer for Continuation (poem)
Susan Griffin
Topics: Feminisms, Ecofeminism, Gender, Gendered Power Relations, Patriarchy, Health, Infrastructure, Urban Planning, Military Forces & Armed Groups, Militarism, Political Participation, Race, Rights, Land Rights, Security, Food Security, Weapons /Arms, Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Regions: Africa, East Africa, Asia, East Asia, Oceania Countries: Japan, Kenya, Micronesia, New Zealand
Year: 1983