ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the voices of technologically poisoned female bodies across genres as well as documentary footage. It focuses on the writings of Pierre Bourdieu, Linda Nash, and Edward Soja and explores the ecofeminist readings of the connections between women's bodies and the environment. Cerezita Valle reveals her own gendered assumptions about the world, linking men with industrial agriculture and toxic dumping and women with nature and a prophetic connection to the land. Her associations are troubling because they simplify the complex gender relations of her community. California's Central Valley is known more for its dramatic landscapes and beauty than for the astonishing quantity of meat, dairy, and nuts that leaves the valley for destinations around the world. In Cherrie Moraga's efforts to demonstrate how racialized bodies are persecuted and marginalized in invisible ways, she continually points to machismo as a common problem in Chicano culture.
