A READING FROM IVONE GEBARA OF BRAZIL
Eco-feminism is born of daily life, of day-to-day sharing among people, of enduring together: garbage in the streets, bad smells, the absence of sewers and safe drinking water, poor nutrition and inadequate health care. The eco-feminist issue is born of the lack of municipal garbage collection, of the multiplication of rats, cockroaches, and mosquitoes, and of the sores on children's skin. This is true because it is usually women who have to deal with the daily survival issues: keeping the house clean and feeding and washing the children.