Wednesday Draft Questions 5/27 - Elena Orlando

1. In "These Women are Saving the Amazon," Esperanza Martinez says "On the one hand capitalism has to exploit nature[...]on the other hand it has to exploit women. Making women invisible in their work" (1:30). How can feminism be a way from environmental activists to make visible the ways in which economic forces disparately impact women?

2. Jenkins writes "Making women visible as active participants in these struggles, and recognizing their strategic contribution, is particularly salient in the light of the increasingly violent and confrontational nature of state responses to such resistance"(p.456). How do women become visible in these struggles while maintaining agency over their motivations and they ways in which they want to be represented?

3. On the presence of Indigenous women in public discourses, Amaguana writes "making the colossal shift from domestic subjects to public-political subjects and seeing ourselves in the context of a strengthened Indigenous movement have implied a major transformation" (p.83). Transforming how one see's themselves is presented as a precursor to fighting for collective well-being and determination. How is one's consciousness transformed in connecting with intergenerational knowledge?