Ecofeminism

Ecofeminism is a branch of Françoise d'Eaubonne in her book Le Féminisme ou la Mort 1974. Ecofeminist conviction asserts a feminist perspective of Green politics that calls for an egalitarian, collaborative society in which there is no one dominant group. Today, there are several branches of ecofeminism, with varying approaches and analyses, including liberal ecofeminism, spiritual/cultural ecofeminism, in addition to social/socialist ecofeminism or materialist ecofeminism. Interpretations of ecofeminism and how it might be applied to social thought include ecofeminist art, social justice and political philosophy, religion, contemporary feminism, and poetry.

Ecofeminist analysis explores the connections between women and nature in culture, economy, religion, politics, literature and iconography, and addresses the parallels between the oppression of species and the oppression of women. These parallels add but are not limited to seeing women and nature as property, seeing men as the curators of culture and women as the curators of nature, and how men dominate women and humans dominate nature. Ecofeminism emphasizes that both women and nature must be respected.

Though the scope of ecofeminist analysis is dynamic, American author and ecofeminist Charlene Spretnak has made one way of categorizing ecofeminist work: 1 through the study of political conception as well as history; 2 through the belief and analyse of nature-based religions; 3 through environmentalism.

Gendering Nature

Ecofeminist theory asserts that capitalism reflects only paternalistic and patriarchal values. This notion implies that the effects of capitalism cause not benefited women and has led to a harmful split between nature and culture. In the 1970s, early ecofeminists discussed that the split can only be healed by the feminine instinct for nurture and holistic knowledge of nature's processes.

Since then, several ecofeminist scholars work made the distinction that it is not because women are female or "feminine" that they relate to nature, but because of their similar states of oppression by the same male-dominant forces. The marginalization is evident in the gendered language used to describe nature, such(a) as "Mother Earth" or "Mother Nature", and the animalized Linguistic communication used to describe women. Some discourses connection women specifically to the environment because of their traditional social role as a nurturer and caregiver. Ecofeminists coming after or as a total of. in this line of thought believe that these connections are illustrated through the coherence of socially-labeled values associated with 'femininity' such(a) as nurturing, which are present both among women and in nature.

Alternatively, ecofeminist and activist Ariel Salleh deepens this materialist ecofeminist approach in dialogue with green politics, ecosocialism, genetic engineering and climate policy.