Ecofeminism As Politics

Download or read book Ecofeminism as Politics written by Ariel Salleh and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 1997-11 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores 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 political 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, political economy. The book opens with a short history of the ecofeminism. Part two establishes the basis for its epistemological challenge while the third part consists of ecofeminist deconstructions of deep ecology, social ecology, eco-socialism and postmodern feminism. In the final section, Salleh suggests that a powerful way forward can be found in commonalities between ecofeminist and indigenous struggles.

Download or read book Ecological Politics written by Greta Gaard and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating account of two interconnected social movements from their grassroots origins in the 1970s to the 1996 Green presidential campaign.

Download or read book Ecofeminism written by Karen Warren and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1997-05-22 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A summary of the ecofeminist movement

Download or read book Eco-Sufficiency and Global Justice written by Ariel Salleh and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2009-03-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the twenty-first century faces a crisis of democracy and sustainability, this book tries to bring academics and globalisation activists into conversation. Through studies of global neoliberalism, ecological debt, climate change, and the ongoing devaluation of reproductive and subsistence labour, these essays women thinkers expose the limits of current scholarship in political economy, ecological economics, and sustainability science. The book introduces theoretical concepts for talking about humanity-nature links.

Download or read book Ecofeminist Natures written by Noël Sturgeon and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Download or read book The Good-natured Feminist written by Catriona Sandilands and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heroic mothers defending home and hearth against a nature deformed by multinationalist corporate practice: this may be a compelling story, but it is not necessarily the source of valid feminist or ecological critique. What's missing is the democratic element, an insistence on bringing to public debate all the relations of gender and nature that such a view takes for granted. This book aims to situate a commitment to theory and politics -- that is, to democratic practice -- at the center of ecofeminism and, thus, to move toward an ecofeminism that is truly both feminist and ecological. The Good-Natured Feminist inaugurates a sustained conversation between ecofeminism and recent writings in feminist postmodernism and radical democracy. Starting with the assumption that ecofeminism is a body of democratic theory, the book tells how the movement originated in debates about "nature" in North American radical feminisms, how it then became entangled with identity politics, and how it now seeks to include nature in democratic conversation and, especially, to politicize relations between gender and nature in both theoretical and activist milieus.

Download or read book Ecofeminism written by Greta Gaard and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-03 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminist scholars and activists explore the relationships among humans, animals, and the natural environment.