ABSTRACT
This chapter explores a serious attempt to overcome barriers between white women and women of color within an ecofeminist organization during the period when ecofeminism was becoming an identifiable political location. It presents the story of WomanEarth's efforts, concentrating on the way in which racial parity operated to shape the organization's goals, practice, and understanding of racism within an ecofeminist context. Ecofeminism moves beyond early second-wave radical feminist discourse, which presented racism and sexism as analogous, speaking of "women" and "blacks" in ways that made women of color invisible and that prevented the analysis of the "double jeopardy" of racism and sexism. The impetus for WomanEarth came from Ynestra King and Starhawk. King reports being motivated by two main desires. King's antiracist strategy was deeply influenced by Barbara Deming, a lesbian-feminist, antiracist activist, and pacifist who was a strong role model for feminist antimilitarists of the time.
