The Moonspeaker:
Where Some Ideas Are Stranger Than Others...
Webster's First New intergalactic WICKEDARY of the English Language
Conjured by Mary Daly in cahoots with Jane Caputi
With an Experimental Webbing by Alexiares
DEDICATION
Section of the cover of André Collard's posthumously published book, Rape of the Wild: Man's Violence Against Animals and the Earth, 1988.
In Metamemory of
Andrée Collard
true lover of the Wild
and
to the myriads
of Hopping Hoping women
and Other creatures
who continue to carry on
Andrée Collard moved to massachussetts from belgium in 1945, pursuing key work as a founding feminist activist and scholar alongside her literary specialty in spanish baroque literature. Her translation and annotation of Bartolomé de las Casas' History of the Indies remains a respected and widely used classic. She helped establish brandeis university's original Women's Studies program in 1971 – 1973. Collard and Daly were good friends, and Daly wrote the foreword to Rape of the Wild, a founding english-language text in eco-feminism. Collard's papers are held and archived at harvard university. Marian Rutigliano and Lierre Keith discussed Collard's book in an october episode of WDI's Radical Feminist Perspectives series.
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