Ecofeminism as Politics

Ecofeminism as Politics
Author: Ariel Salleh
Publsiher: Zed Books Ltd.
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2017-08-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781786990426

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Ecofeminism as Politics is now a classic, being the first work to offer a joined-up framework for green, socialist, feminist and postcolonial thinking, showing how these have been held back by conceptual confusions over gender. Originally published in 1997, it argues that ecofeminism reaches beyond contemporary social movement ideologies and practices, by prefiguring a political synthesis of four-revolutions-in-one: ecology is feminism is socialism is postcolonial struggle. Ariel Salleh addresses discourses on class, science, the body, culture and nature, and her innovative reading of Marx converges the philosophy of internal relations with the organic materiality of everyday life. This new edition features forewords by Indian ecofeminist Vandana Shiva and US philosopher John Clark, a new introduction, and a recent conversation between Salleh and younger scholar activists.

Ecofeminism as Politics

Ecofeminism as Politics
Author: Ariel Salleh
Publsiher: Zed Books
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1997-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: UCSC:32106014948662

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This is an exploration of the philosophical and political challenge of ecofeminism. It shows how the ecology movement has been held back by conceptual confusion over the implications of gender difference, while much that passes in the name of feminism is actually an obstacle to ecological change and global democracy. The author argues that ecofeminism reaches beyond contemporary social movements, being a synthesis of four revolutions in one: ecology is feminism is socialism is post-colonial struggle. Informed by a critical postmodern reading of the Marxist tradition, Salleh's ecofeminism integrates discourses on science, the body, culture, nature and political economy. The book opens with a short history of ecofeminism. Part Two establishes the basis for its epistemological challenge, while the third part consists of ecofeminist deconstructions of deep ecology, social ecology, ecosocialism and postmodern feminism. In the final section Salleh suggests that a powerful way forward can be found in commonalities between ecofeminist and indigenous struggles.

Finding Our Way

Finding Our Way
Author: Janet Biehl
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 182
Release: 1991
Genre: Nature
ISBN: IND:30000026314611

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Finding Our Way is a well-written, clear introduction to a range of ecofeminist thought. In four essays, Biehl explores ecofeminism's intellectual affinities with social ecology and other schools of thought; critiques the increasing role of Goddess mythology within today's movement; spiritedly defends reason and naturalism against what she sees as a "counter-Enlightenment" mentality within feminist and academic circles; and mines the Western democratic tradition for its relevant political insights for feminists today.

Ecological Politics

Ecological Politics
Author: Greta Gaard
Publsiher: Temple University Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 1998-05-11
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9781566395700

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AN ILLUMINATING ACCOUNT OF TWO INTERCONNECTED SOCIAL MOVEMENTS FROM THEIR GRASSROOTS ORIGINS THROUGH THE 1996 GREEN PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN Both ecofeminism and Green politics have played an important role in the radical environmental movement. As a theory and a movement bringing together feminism, environmentalism, socialism, and peace activism, ecofeminism began taking shape in the U.S. by 1980. Four years later, many ecofeminists participated in founding and developing the U.S. Green movement. Where are these movements today? A member of both movements, Greta Gaard bases her analysis on personal experience as well as extensive secondary sources and interviews with key theorists, activists, and speakers across the United States. She describes the paths -- environmental causes, the feminist peace movement, the feminist spirituality movement, the animal liberation movement, and the anti-toxics movement, as well as experiences of interconnectedness -- that have led women (and a few men) to articulate an ecofeminist perspective. The book illustrates the development of the Greens from a national movement into a political party and defines the factions -- the Left Greens, the Youth Greens, and the Green Politics Network -- that underlay the debates during Ralph Nader's 1996 presidential campaign. She sees the history of these three groups as stages in the transition from a leftist and sometimes anarchist focus to an emphasis on electoral political action that places the Green movement squarely within the pattern of other social movements around the world. Gaard's analysis illuminates the nature and direction of each of these important movements and the pressures and conflictsexperienced by all social movements at the end of the twentieth century.

Ecofeminist Natures

Ecofeminist Natures
Author: Noel Sturgeon
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2016-01-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781317959007

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Examining the development of ecofeminism from the 1980s antimilitarist movement to an internationalist ecofeminism in the 1990s, Sturgeon explores the ecofeminist notions of gender, race, and nature. She moves from detailed historical investigations of important manifestations of US ecofeminism to a broad analysis of international environmental politics.

Finding Our Way

Finding Our Way
Author: Janet Biehl
Publsiher: Black Rose Books Limited
Total Pages: 159
Release: 1991
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0921689780

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"A well-written, clear introduction to a range of ecofeminist thought."--Environmental Politics¶ "Provides a sorely needed perspective on the relationship between feminism and ecology. A must read for anyone wishing to explore the philosophical connections. "--New Politics

Ecofeminism

Ecofeminism
Author: Karen Warren,Nisvan Erkal
Publsiher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 471
Release: 1997-05-22
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780253210579

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A summary of the ecofeminist movement

Implications of ecofeminism for political theory

Implications of ecofeminism for political theory
Author: Stefanie Kessler
Publsiher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 13
Release: 2008-10-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9783640182206

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Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Women Studies / Gender Studies, grade: A, University of Auckland, course: Political Theory of the Environment, 22 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Feminism and Environmentalism are both recent phenomens in political theory. They both challenge mainstream politics as movements and as critical concepts. Thus they have in common that they are in themselves political and question the establishment. As concepts they can be applied in political theory to a variation of ideologies and interrupt the political scene. Andrew Dobson and Robyn Eckersley argue that there is a rising interest of the mainstream in environmental thoughts as they can contribute to major political concepts like democracy, justice and others. Herein they see a parallel to feminist theory which has a major impact on a broad range of aspects in political theory (Dobson/Eckersley. 2006: 3). In ecofeminism both concepts merge together. Val Plumwood calls ecofeminism the 'hybrid area' „which aims at developing a feminism that is ecological and an ecology that is feminist“ (Plumwood. 2006: 51). Thus the question is how both concepts merge within ecofeminism and how they can contribute to each other and have a larger impact on political theory in general. As part of this essay I will examine the basic arguments of ecofeminism and its implications for both concepts as well as on political theory in general. I will begin with a definition of the major terms: environmentalism/ecologism, feminism and ecofeminism. [...]