At our 2020 Conference: Jane Caputi and “Feed the Green,” Film on Ecofeminism

Jane’s presentation will be Skyped into the conference.

Feminist social critic Jane Caputi is Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Florida Atlantic University.  In 2016, she was named as Eminent Scholar of the Year by the Popular Culture Association.  She has written three books, The Age of Sex Crime (1987), Gossips, Gorgons and Crones (1993), and Goddesses and Monsters: Women, Myth, Power and Popular Culture (2004), and collaborated with Mary Daly on Websters’ First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language (1987).

She also has made two educational documentaries, The Pornography of Everyday Life (2006, Berkeley Media) and Feed the Green: Feminist Voices for the Earth (2015, Women Make Movies).

Her new book, Call Your “Mutha’” A Deliberately Dirty-Minded Manifesto for the Earth Mother in the Anthropocene, is being published by Oxford University Press in August 2020, in a series on “Heretical Thinking” edited by Ruth O’Brien.

About Feed the Green: Feminist Voices for the Earth

Feed The Green: Feminist Voices for the Earth was inspired by one of the most powerful dreams that ever came to Jane, giving her the phrase “Feed the Green”: “We do this in multiple ways – material, intellectual, spiritual, emotional – listening to and responding to the call of the Green, always returning energy to the Source.”

Feed the Green features a variety of feminist thinkers, including ecological and social justice advocates Vandana Shiva, Starhawk and Andrea Smith, ecosexual activists Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens; ecofeminist theorist and disability rights activist Ynestra King, poet Camille Dungy, scholars and bloggers Janell Hobson and Jill Schneiderman and grass roots activist La Loba Loca. “ßTheir voices are powerfully juxtaposed with images from popular culture, including advertising, myth, art, and the news, pointing to the ways that an environmentally destructive worldview is embedded in popular discourses, both contemporary and historical.”–Container.

Jane says, “We think we’re doing it all. But the animals are doing the real work of holding it all together, and keeping us on our path. As are the plants. It’s as if we think the stars and sun and moon and the earth itself aren’t doing any work.”