Ivone Gebara
2009 Pat Reif Memorial Lectures: “Feminism & Religious Identities”

Tuesday, March 31, 2009
7:00 p.m. at Mudd Theater
Claremont School of Theology

Ivone Gebara, noted eco-feminist and Latin American theologian, will speak at Claremont School of Theology this month. The Pat Reif Memorial Lectures, in their seventh year, are a program of Claremont Graduate University.

At 7 p.m. on Monday, March 30, she will also give a lecture entitled “Happiness and the Construction of Right Relationship: A Feminist Perspective” at the Donohue Conference Center of Mount St. Mary’s college in Los Angeles, Calif.

Born in 1944, Ivone Gebara is a Brazilian Sister of Our Lady (Canoneses of St. Augustine) and one of Latin America’s leading theologians, writing from the perspective of ecofeminism and liberation theology. For nearly two decades Gebara has been a professor at the Theological Institute of Recife. The author of Longing for Running Water: Ecofeminism and Liberation, Gebara articulates an ecofeminist perspective that combines social ecofeminism and holistic ecology, promoting an “urban ecofeminism” shaped by her experiences of working with poor women in Brazilian favelas (slum neighborhoods).

Gebara claims that ecofeminism is born of “daily life” and thus considers garbage in the street, inadequate health care, and other daily survival crises faced by poor women as they provide for family sustenance, to be central issues in ecofeminist liberation theology. Gebara proposes a new theological anthropology, model for God, trinitarian language, Christology, and “religious biodiversity” from the perspective of Latin American ecofeminism

The lecture is free and open to the public. for more information, call (909) 607-9592 or e-mail Lisa.Maldonado @ cgu.edu (remove spaces).