WOMEN'S STUDIES 309 - Stormy Weather:Ecofeminism

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Hobart William Smith Colleges

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What is our relation with the earth With animals, plants, water, technology, and air With each other With the wider universe This course delves into the field of ecofeminism, a word first coined in 1974 by Francoi d'Eaubonne to signal the joining of two movements - environmentalism and feminism. Early feminists asked: Is the oppression of women linked to the oppression of earth - Mother Nature How do concepts of nature, gender and sexuality fashion our ways of living jointly, as "companion species " Beginning with signature 1960s texts such as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, this seminar tracks the stormy debates on environmentalism and feminism, including questions of oppression, environmental degradation, weather, and technologies of war as it seeks to chart new ways out of our current environmental conundrum. The seminar thus follows the affairs and entanglements of nature, science, and feminism in theory, research, film, literature, and everyday life. (Bayer)

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

WWW.HWS.EDU

Phone Number:

(315) 781-3000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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