Mapping Gendered Ecologies brings together the perspectives of gardeners, teachers, activists, womanists, students, herbalists, and feminists. The contributors to this collection reflect on their intersectional identities, personal relationships, and ecological ties to engage with current crises affecting both humans and the environment.
This collection of women's racialized and gendered mappings of place, people, and nature includes the stories of teachers, organizers, activists, farmers, healers, and gardeners. From their many entry points, the contributors to this work engage crucial questions of coexistence with nature in these times of overlapping climate, health, economic, and racial crises.
Chapter 1: Maps, Gardens, and Quilts
Chapter 2: Darkness All Around: Black Water, Land, Animals, and Sky
Chapter 3: Roots, Branches, and Wings
Chapter 4: Cultivating Intergenerational Gardens with Judith Atamba: An Ecowomanist Analysis of a Transnational Black Women’s Gardening Collaboration
Chapter 5: Theorizing Ecofeminist Intersectionalities and their Implications for Feminist Teachers
Chapter 6: On Black Women’s Spatial Resistance: Tracing Modes of Survival and Safe Spaces across the Atlantic
Chapter 7: Rematriation: A Climate Justice Migration
Chapter 8: A Conversation with Stephanie Morningstar, coordinator of the North East Farmers of Color (NEFOC) Land Trust
Chapter 9: Ecofeminism as Intersectional Pedagogy and Practice
Chapter 10: Climate Justice in the Wild n’ Dirty South: An Autoethnographic Reflection on Ecowomanism as Engaged Scholar-Activist Praxis before and during COVID-19
Chapter 11: Lifelines: Repairing War on the Land
Chapter 12: Intimate Pedagogy, Melancholic Things
Chapter 13: Teaching and Learning Gendered Ecologies across the Curriculum
Chapter 14: A Word about Womanist Ecology: An Autoethnography of Understanding the Sacredness of Community Gardens for Africana Indigenous People in America
Chapter 15: A Conversation with Nuria Costa Leonardo: Feminist Visionary, Builder, Farmer, and Teacher