Nestled into niches: prefigurative communities on lesbian land.
The contemporary U.S. lesbian land movement, known more recently as the landdyke movement, is analyzed. I argue that landdyke activists are creating a network of communities that are prefigurative and ecofeminist. Based on interviews with 32 activists in the movement, the article describes four aspects of landdyke ecofeminist praxis: developing an emotional and spiritual connection to land; facilitating personal liberation and transformation; living important values through everyday acts; and assurance of bodily freedoms that are largely unavailable outside of the movement. These lived aspects of the landdyke movement prefigure an ecofeminist future.
Anahita
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Department of Sociology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska 99708, USA. sine.anahita@uaf.edu
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D019513:Feminism; D018452:Homosexuality, Female; D006798:Housing; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010067:Ownership; D012111:Residence Characteristics