Longing for Running Water: Ecofeminism and Liberation

by Ivone Gebara, David Molineaux

Gebara's succinct yet moving statement of her principles of ecofeminism shows how intertwined are the tarnished environment around her and the poverty that afflicts her neighbors. From her experiences with the Brazilian poor women's movement she develops a gritty urban ecofeminism and indeed articulates a whole worldview. She shows how the connections between Western thought, partriachal Christianity, and environmental destruction necessitate personal conversion to "an new relationship with the earth and with the entire cosmos."

Genres: Theology, Feminism, Religion, Spirituality, Nonfiction, Womens, Sociology

240 pages, Paperback

First published January 3, 1999

About the author

Ivone Gebara (São Paulo, 1944) é uma freira católica, filósofa e teóloga feminista brasileira.