Although I agree with most of what Kylie said a few days ago about indivi= dual responsibility to the environment, one statement did bother me: >A great many of the Earths deserts were man-made. (I am not >being sexis= t, womyn had nothing to do with this destruction.) Just as women in many cultures continue to participate in their own oppression, (often unconsciously) women in the past (and present) all too= often degrade their natural surroundings. There is a fair amount of anthropological/archaeological evidence that women, as the = primary collectors of plant food, were the original domesticators of our = most of our important crops, and in many parts of the world women are (and mor= e were in the past) the main farmers, fuel wood collectors, that have the most immediate impact on the environment. As an archaeologist interested in the origins of gender inequality and agriculture, I=92d like to know when/where the ecofeminists in this newsg= roup think the oppression of women and environments began, and if they have al= ways been linked together...I agree they seem to be associated in Western cult= ure, but what about in Native Africa, = Australia, the Americas? = Finally, here=92s quote on women & agriculture I just ran across that I t= hought others might enjoy: =93My people believe if you are close to the Earth, you are close to people...What an African woman nurtures in the soil will eventually feed = her family. Likewise what she nutures in her relations will ultimately nutur= e her community. It is a matter of living the circle...Because we have forgotten our kinship with the land, our kinship with each other has beco= me pale.=94 unnamed Kenyan woman, cited in Refuge, by Terry Tempest Williams= , p. 49, 1991 Sandy Dunavan >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Mar 8 18:28:51 MST 1995 id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 09 Mar 1995 14:16:11 +1300 ; 9 Mar 95 14:14:47 +1300 Date: Thu, 09 Mar 1995 14:13:12 +1300 From: "STEFANIE S. RIXECKER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Association for Women in Psychology/Forwarded message To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Lincoln University I thought this might be of interest to some ECFOEMers. Stefanie ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date sent: Wed, 08 Mar 1995 16:19:01 -0800 From: "Maryka K. Biaggio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Association for Women in Psychology Send reply to: Women's Studies List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The 1996 Association for Women in Psychology Conference will be held in Portland, Oregon March 14-17. This is a high energy conference, which is multidisciplinary-friendly. The Call for Proposals will be sent out this summer for any who might be interested. Women in the Portland and Eugene areas are involved in planning. Anyone interested in getting involved locally is invited to contact me. The call will go out nationally, and anyone interested in being on the mailing list can contact me also. Maryka Biaggio Pacific University 2004 Pacific Avenue Forest Grove, OR 97116 (503) 359-2240 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
