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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Movements of Ecofeminism -- 2 Ecofeminist Antimilitarism and Strategic Essentialisms -- 3 WomanEarth Feminist Peace Institute and the Race for Parity -- 4 The Nature of Race: Indigenous Women and White Goddesses -- 5 Ecofeminist Natures and Transnational Environmental Politics -- 6 What's In a Name? Ecofeminisms as/in Feminist Theory -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Explores the animating theories of the nonviolent direct action movement that, since the 1970s, has stood in opposition to nuclear power plants & weapons, US intervention in Central America, & the Persian Gulf War. It is suggested that the leading theory of social movements, resource mobilization theory, cannot explain the continual reappearance of the nonviolent direction action movement in the US cultural landscape, because it posits a process of social change in which excluded groups form social movements that eventually evolve into interest groups. Borrowing from the work of Alberto Melucci (1989), the nonviolent direct action movement is described as motivated less by the attainment of institutional structures & elite resources than by interaction within affinity groups in a decentralized organizational structure. The process of acting within such groups involves the creation of personal political identities in such a way that a multitude of identities can be connected through a chain of equivalences &, thus, energized to pursue direct political action. In both its explicit political actions & its implicit organizational structure & theory of political action, the nonviolent direct action movement challenges the discursive practices that support the security state. D. M. Smith

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 Toward a Queer Ecofeminism -- 2 Women, Sexuality, and Environmental Justice in American History -- 3 Feminist Theory and Environmental Justice -- 4 Witness to Truth: Black Women Heeding the Call for Environmental Justice -- 5 The Role of Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Class in Activists' Perceptions of Environmental Justice -- 6 Sexual Politics and Environmental Justice: Lesbian Separatists in Rural Oregon -- 7 Toxic Bodies? ACT UP's Disruption of the Heteronormative Landscape of the Nation -- 8 Producing "Roundup Ready®" Communities? Human Genome Research and Environmental Justice Policy -- 9 Public Eyes: Investigating the Causes of Breast Cancer -- 10 Gender, Asthma Politics, and Urban Environmental Justice Activism -- 11 No Remedy for the Inuit: Accountability for Environmental Harms under U.S. and International Law -- 12 Bodily Invasions: Gene Trading and Organ Theft in Octavia Butler and Nalo Hopkinson's Speculative Fiction -- 13 Home Everywhere and the Injured Body of the World: The Subversive Humor of Blue Vinyl -- 14 "Lo que quiero es tierra": Longing and Belonging in Cherríe Moraga's Ecological Vision -- 15 Detecting Toxic Environments: Gay Mystery as Environmental Justice -- 16 "The Power is Yours, Planeteers!" Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Children's Environmental Popular Culture -- Notes on Contributors -- Index