Women Healing Earth Summary

Women Healing Earth is written by Rosemary Radfrod Ruether. This book is a series of essays from different types of women with different cultures. Starting from Latino America, Asia, and Africa. These women are writing in a perspective of a female theologians in the developing world. The reading is grouped into three sections these sections go into depth with the traditional religion these women practice. Also indigenous women are brought up in a more wide- spread religion. Lastly the white missionaries who lived outside of the developing world. In the section of Latin America, they express in spiritual ways on how the influences of women is equal to the influences of nature. Women are thought to be connected with nature in many ways, due to also being the ones to birth children. Also having to carry the weight of the family, having to care for them and find where to get food from. When the environment fails to give food or something happens where the women aren’t getting the nutrients to feed their families or they are over populating they are often blamed for it, even if it is truly out of the women’s hands. In an example in the reading, El Salvador has the highest death of children due to …show more content…
She mentions in the reading that the transfer of land took away their land use and damaged their food production. The outcome of this has just made things difficult for the poorest of India. She especially takes issue with biotechnology, writing that nature is not something that should be controlled (69). It is known that poor women are the ones that do the hardship on themselves because the only way they have the source of food is over using the water wells and wood for fire. “How can culture, spirituality and society be reconstructed for life-giving relations in the wake of the current impoverishment and disintegration of traditional systems of survival