Close to Home: Women Reconnect Ecology, Health and Development Worldwide. This item is unavailable.Close to Home: Women Reconnect Ecology, Health and Development Worldwide

Shiva, Vandana (Ed.)

A revolution is in the making, a restructuring of the seats of power. And at the core are the women of America; the 'hysterical housewives' who wear that title as a badge of their courage. As Cora Tucker, a Black woman in the South says, 'You're exactly right. I am hysterical. When it comes to matters of life and death, especially mine, and my family's, I get hysterical.' The women activists in the Movement for Environmental Justice are proud of the energy and emotions they put forth in these battles.

Over a five day period, chemicals were released from the site to flow through our community-over public roads, flooding our homes, and inundating the elementary school just three-quarters of a mile below the site. During that entire time we were not informed of what was occurring; we assumed that the puddles our children played in and the water our animals stood in was just rain water runoff. We had no idea that we were being exposed to toxic chemicals and it was not until people noticed children's tennis shoes falling apart, and Levis disintegrating that we began to suspect something.