Woman and nature: alliance and analogy. Dialoguing reflection with Laudato Si'

• Autor(a) principal: Bingemer, Maria Clara Lucchetti
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/ephata.2022.11369

Pope Francis’ Encyclical Laudato Si’ is not very lavish in mentions of women, nor of the feminist cause. Nor does it refer to ecofeminism. However, one can find in it some mentions of Creation, nature, and the Earth that refer to the feminine or to feminine archetypes. Moreover, in the text of the Papal Encyclical there are also passages where the alliance between human feminine corporeality and creation are made explicit. In this text we intend to highlight these mentions, dialoguing with two cinematographic works by the Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán: Nostalgia of Light from 2009 and The Pearl Button from 2015. Based on this dialogue, the text examines some Latin American women’s collective movements where one can perceive, in dialogue with Guzmán’s cinema and the papal encyclical, this alliance between creation and the Earth, and women, their bodies and their political actions. The text reflects on how the Earth brings about an analogy and a primordial alliance and the female body and how this is reflected, although without such explicit naming, in Francis’ document. Some consequences of this analogy and alliance are highlighted towards the construction of an ecofeminist ethics, theology and mysticism.