Welcome to the 106th edition podcast of Women’s Liberation Radio News. Here is the show on YouTube!

First up, hear aurora linnea greet the listener before handing the mic to Mary O’Neill for women’s news from around the world.

Next, enjoy the song “Heaven is a Place on Earth” an old 80’s pop favorite re-imagined by Allison Lorenzen. After the song, stay tuned for excerpts of a LIVE round table discussion the WLRN team held on January 11th with aurora to discuss her book Man Against Being: Body Horror & the Death of Life

Finally, enjoy this month’s commentary from WLRN team member Margaret Moss who speaks to us about how human society is organized around serving the alpha males, something we should have left behind long ago in our journey here on earth.

To learn more about ecofeminism, aurora has put together a list of books and articles to explore published below Margaret’s artist’s statement about this month’s cover.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT:

I chose a photo showing aurora sitting among some ferns for the right side of the image. I have a NASA earth image overlayed over her – so it looks like she is in an earth bubble. Also inside the earth bubble is an image from the Los Angeles fires from January 2025. If you didn’t know better, you could think it was a sunrise, over a hill.

On the left side is a photo of a couple of two young Bonobos sitting on the ground – seemingly talking to each other. One has a bluish cast over it and the other a red-orange cast. Aurora is positioned so she is looking at the 2 young Bonobos. 

Behind the Baby Bonobos is a NASA image of the Congo river. I recently learned that Chimpanzees were split off from the primates who became Bonobos – 1-2 million years ago. The Chimpanzees lived on the north side of the river and the Bonobos on the south side. They couldn’t cross the river. The Chimpanzees became a male dominated society, much more violent than the Bonobos. The female Bonobos bond together to keep the males in check. 

Overall, I wanted to convey a sense of aurora (and all of us) trapped in an earth which is beautiful – but also in distress. We can look back on not only our young selves personally – but also as humans compared to our young primate selves. 

AN ECOFEMINIST READING LIST

This list does not claim nor attempt to be comprehensive; instead it is meant as a primer for readers keen to delve into ecofeminist theory.

Jane Caputi
The Age of Sex Crime (1987)
Gossip, Gorgons & Crones: The Fates of the Earth (1993)
Goddesses and Monsters: Women, Myth, Power, and Popular Culture (2004)

Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (1962)

Andree Collard with Joyce Contrucci, Rape of the Wild: Man’s Violence Against Animals and the Earth (1989)

Irene Diamond, Fertile Ground: Women, Earth, and the Limits of Control (1994)

Francoise d’Eaubonne, Feminism or Death: How the Women’s Movement Can Save the Planet (1974)

Greta Gaard, Ecological Politics: Ecofeminists and the Greens (1998)

Susan Griffin
Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her (1978)
Pornography and Silence: Culture’s Revenge Against Nature (1981)
The Eros of Everyday Life: Essays on Ecology, Gender and Society (1995)

Susan Hawthorne
Wild Politics (2002)
Vortex: The Crisis of Patriarchy (2020)

Marti Kheel, Nature Ethics: An Ecofeminist Perspective (2007)

Freya Mathews, Reinhabiting Reality: Towards a Recovery of Culture (2005)

Carolyn Merchant
The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution (1980)
Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World (1992)
Reinventing Eden: The Fate of Nature in Western Culture (2003)

Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature (1993)

Rosemary Radford Ruether, New Woman, New Earth: Sexist Ideologies and Human Liberation (1975)

Ariel Salleh, Ecofeminism as Politics: Nature, Marx and the Postmodern (1997)

Vandana Shiva
Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development (1988)
Monocultures of the Mind (1993)
Oneness Vs. the 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom (2018)

Vandana Shiva and Maria Mies, Ecofeminism (1993)

Charlene Spretnak, The Resurgence of the Real: Body, Nature and Place in a Hypermodern World (1999)

Karen Warren
Ecofeminism: Women, Culture, Nature (1997)
Ecofeminist Philosophy: A Western Perspective on What it Is and Why it Matters (2000)

ANTHOLOGIES

Reclaim the Earth: Women Speak Out for Life on Earth, eds. Leonie Caldecott and Stephanie Leland (1984)
Healing the Wounds: The Promise of Ecofeminism, ed. Judith Plant (1989)
Reweaving the World: The Emergence of Ecofeminism, eds. Irene Diamond & Gloria Orenstein (1990)
Ecofeminism and the Sacred, ed. Carol Adams (1993)
Ecofeminism: Women, Animals, Nature, ed. Greta Gaard (1993)
Animals and Women: Feminist Theoretical Explorations, eds. Carol Adams and Josephine Donovan (1995)
Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth, ed. Carol Adams (2014)