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Mother Earth Meets the Anthropocene (“The Age of Man”)
We were so pleased that Professor Jane Caputi, Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Florida Atlantic University, joined us on February 20, 2024 to share her analysis of “Mother Earth Meets the Anthropocene (“The Age of Man”): An Ecofeminist/Environmental Justice Assessment.”
Jane is a brilliant scholar and has been writing about violence against women for decades. Her most recent book, Call Your “Mutha”: A Deliberately Dirty-Minded Manifesto for the Earth Mother in the Anthropocene, was published by Oxford University Press in 2020. Jane makes a very powerful argument for the significance of Mother Earth in the face of the destructive forces of domination over nature and the threats to survival. Dr. Caputi’s other books include Goddesses and Monsters: Women, Myth, Power, and Popular Culture (Popular Press 2004); Gossips, Gorgons, and Crones: The Fates of the Earth (Bear and Company 1993); and Age of Sex Crime (Popular Press 1987). She also has made two educational documentaries, The Pornography of Everyday Life (2006) distributed by Berkeley Media and Feed the Green: Feminist Voices for the Earth (2016), distributed by Women Make Movies. Dr. Caputi, in 2016, was named Eminent Scholar of the Year by the American Culture/Popular Culture Association and in 2020 the Association for the Study of Women in Mythology gave her their annual “Saga Award” for contributions to women’s history and culture.
Event Details: Tuesday, February 20, 2024, from 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. at the Student Center East Cardinal Room (750 S. Halsted) at the University of Illinois Chicago. To RSVP, please click here. To download the flyer in PDF, please click here.
After Professor Caputi delivered her lecture (with many images), she and Teresa Córdova, Director of Great Cities Institute, engaged in a conversation about the significance of her analysis. Check out this video from 1992 of Jane, Teresa, and Ann Scales talking about images and violence against women. This video will remind you of how deeply imbedded the messages are in popular culture that perpetuate violence against women. Thirty-two years later, Jane is still illuminating this issue. If you want to hear more, please join us for Professor Jane Caputi’s lecture. It will be worth your time.
We are happy to co-sponsor the event with UIC’s Institute for the Humanities, Anthropocene Lab, Gender and Women’s Studies, and the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy.
