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Ecofeminism

About: Ecofeminism is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 916 publications have been published within this topic receiving 17541 citations. The topic is also known as: eco-feminism & tribal feminism.


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01 Jan 1993
TL;DR: Plumwood as mentioned in this paper argues that feminist theory has an important opportunity to make a major contribution to the debates in political ecology and environmental philosophy, and explains the relation between ecofeminism, or ecological feminism, and other feminist theories including radical green theories such as deep ecology.
Abstract: Two of the most important political movements of the late twentieth century are those of environmentalism and feminism. In this book, Val Plumwood argues that feminist theory has an important opportunity to make a major contribution to the debates in political ecology and environmental philosophy. Feminism and the Mastery of Nature explains the relation between ecofeminism, or ecological feminism, and other feminist theories including radical green theories such as deep ecology. Val Plumwood provides a philosophically informed account of the relation of women and nature, and shows how relating male domination to the domination of nature is important and yet remains a dilemma for women.

1,767 citations

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01 Jan 1989
TL;DR: The diversity of feminist thinking can be found in the following: 1. Liberal Feminism * 2. Radical Feminism: Libertarian and Cultural Perspectives * 3. Marxist and Socialist Feminism, Classical and Contemporary * 4. Psychoanalytic Feminism* 5. Care-focused Feminism as discussed by the authors 6. Multicultural, Global and Postcolonial Feminism
Abstract: * Introduction: The Diversity of Feminist Thinking * 1. Liberal Feminism * 2. Radical Feminism: Libertarian and Cultural Perspectives * 3. Marxist and Socialist Feminism: Classical and Contemporary * 4. Psychoanalytic Feminism * 5. Care-focused Feminism * 6. Multicultural, Global, and Postcolonial Feminism * 7. Ecofeminism * 8. Postmodern and Third-wave Feminism * Conclusion: Margins and Centers * Notes * Bibliography * Index

1,272 citations

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TL;DR: The authors provide educators at all levels with a theoretical rationale for place-conscious education; they also discuss pedagogical pathways, and institutional challenges, to placeconsciousness, and conclude with an analysis of the possibilities for placeconscious education in an era that defines institutional accountability by standards and testing.
Abstract: This article provides educators at all levels with a theoretical rationale for place-conscious education; it also discusses pedagogical pathways, and institutional challenges, to place-consciousness. Drawing on insights from phenomenology, critical geography, bioregionalism, ecofeminism, and other place-conscious traditions, the author gathers diverse perspectives on “place” to demonstrate the profoundly pedagogical nature of human experience with places. Five “dimensions of place” are described that can shape the development of a socio-ecological, place-conscious education: (a) the perceptual, (b) the sociological, (c) the ideological, (d) the political, and (e) the ecological. After discussing these, the author reframes several place-conscious educational traditions. The article concludes with an analysis of the possibilities for place-conscious education in an era that defines institutional accountability by standards and testing.

1,019 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that women, especially those in poor, rural households in India are victims of environmental degradation in quite gender-specific ways, and suggest an alternative conceptualization.
Abstract: This chapter argues that women, especially those in poor, rural households in India are victims of environmental degradation in quite gender-specific ways. It outlines the ecofeminist debate in the United States and one prominent Indian variant of it, and suggests an alternative conceptualization. The chapter traces the nature and causes of environmental degradation in rural India, its class and gender implications, and the responses to it by the state and grass-roots groups. It examines for an alternative transformative approach to development and suggests that women’s and men’s relationship with nature needs to be understood as rooted in their material reality, in their specific forms of interaction with the environment. Ecofeminism embodies within it several different strands of discourse, most of which have yet to be spelled out fully, and which reflect, among other things, different positions within the Western feminist movement. A growing privatization of community resources in individual hands has paralleled the process of statization.

674 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the issue of how gender is conceptualised in relation to the environment has been raised, and it has been argued that gender itself has been undeceived in the context of environmental issues.
Abstract: Gender has long been recognised as important within environmental issues, but there has been considerable debate over how to conceptualise the gender–environment nexus. As feminist theorising around women and gender has changed, so have conceptualisations about gender and environment, leading to a key debate within ecofeminism and related literatures about whether there is an essential or a contingent relationship between women and natural environments. Within geography, most political ecologists work with the assumption that the gender–environment nexus is a contingent relationship, and thus investigate how gender relations are salient in the symbolic and material construction of environmental issues. In this paper I seek to build from this work and again raise the issue of how gender is conceptualised in relation to environment. I begin by briefly reviewing some of the work that has been done on gender and environment and then draw from poststructural feminism to suggest that gender itself has been unde...

386 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202366
2022149
202158
202046
201954
201867