Across
- 4. Abbreviation. This agency is cited as being responsible for policies and instituted procedures that have disproportionately affected people of color.
- 8. This role is usually held by women; this person fights for change to protect their children, family and community.
- 9. This kind of resistance by enslaved women who worked the fields negatively impacted production and profit.
- 12. The rapid rate of the degradation of nature in the U.S. and developing countries suggests this kind of basis as well as racial.
- 13. Environmental degradation is used to authorize the _____________ of women’s bodies and exploit them as natural resources.
Down
- 1. Native women often prolonged this in order to decrease fertility.
- 2. Acronym. This summit has held the “Crowning Women” event to honor the powerful contributions of women to its causes.
- 3. A dramatic change in the level of community participation occurred during the late 1980s with the emergence of the environmental _______ movement.
- 5. This way of living allowed women to regain their sexual and environmental rights in the country away from urban areas that were dominated by men.
- 6. While this movement has done important work connecting the exploitation of Earth to the degradation of women, it has not centralized the work and issues of women and men of color.
- 7. This system of organization within a society was not often based on gender in Native communities; rather, it was influenced more by age and ancestry.
- 9. Many people of this profession are important figures of color in the environmental justice movement, which may lead to issues with radical ecofeminists.
- 10. This family type was the American ideal during the Cold War.
- 11. Cynthia ________ wrote about women of color fighting against the position of an incinerator in their neighborhood.
