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Author Diamond, Irene, 1947-

Title Fertile ground : women, earth, and the limits of control / Irene Diamond; [with a foreword by Starhawk].

Publication Info. Boston : Beacon Press, [1994]
© 1994

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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  304.632 D54    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  304.6 D537F    Check Shelf
Description xi, 202 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-193) and index.
Contents Foreword / Starhawk -- Preface -- Feminism, Fertility, and the Living Earth -- Bodies, Sex, and Feminist Politics: Echoes of Anger and Celebration -- Sex Without Consequences: From Sexual Freedom to the Sexuated Body -- Children Without Turmoil: From Sex Without Reproduction to Reproduction Without Sex -- Food Without Sweat: From Abundance for All to the Poisoning of the Planet -- Our Bodies, Our Earth: The Politics of Renewal, Restructuring, and Re-Evolution -- Afterword: Coming to Rest.
Summary In a wide-ranging critique of Western thought and practice, ecofeminist Irene Diamond raises unsettling questions about the ethic of control that permeates how we think about fertility, sexuality, agriculture, and the environment.
"In Diamond's far-reaching eco-feminist vision, the struggle for women's rights is inseparable from the struggle for ecological sanity, the eradication of militarism and opposition to the industrialized, wealthy nations' exploitation of poor countries. Her passionate, challenging manifesto critiques mainstream feminism which, she contends, has become stalemated by its contention that women's freedom resides in gaining control over women's bodies and sexuality. Diamond, who teaches in the University of Oregon's political science department, views new genetic screening techniques as part of a masculinist ``medical heroics'' that threatens the well-being and dignity of women. After scanning the damaging effects of agribusiness and Western-style development on traditional societies and their ecosystems, she outlines a diversity of alternative practices and protests--organic farming, small dam projects, community-based child care networks, campaigns for land redistribution in India, a women's ``peace camp'' on an English military base--that offer the possibility of sustainable social justice and democratic empowerment." -- publishersweekly.com
Subject Ecofeminism.
Birth control -- Social aspects.
Fertility, Human -- Social aspects.
Birth control -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00833207
Ecofeminism. (OCoLC)fst00901429
Fertility, Human -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00923183
Vrouwen.
Vruchtbaarheid.
Milieu.
Ecofeminisme.
Geburtenregelung (DE-588)4019593-4
Feminismus (DE-588)4222126-2
ökofeminizmus
születésszabályozás -- társadalmi szempont
termékenység -- társadalmi szempont
Indexed Term Birth control Social aspects
Ecofeminism
Fertility, Human Social aspects
Added Author Starhawk, author of the introduction.
Unitarian Universalist Association, responsible party.
Other Form: Online version: Diamond, Irene, 1947- Fertile ground. Boston : Beacon Press, ©1994 (OCoLC)988565979
ISBN 0807067725
9780807067727
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