Although ecofeminism helped to decenter the conceptuality of ‘male’ as a central subject of environmental debates, there were scholars who criticized the theory for homogenizing women and for assigning essentialist characteristics to women as a group (references). Critics like Agarwal (1992) and Jackson (1996) drew attention to the necessity of understanding women’s actions and knowledge in context of everyday political economy, division of labor and property rights (references).Drawing insights from empirical evidences gathered from her own work on women and fuel-wood issues in the Himalaya (India and Nepal), Agarwal (1992) in the late 1980s organized a body of gender theories known as feminist environmentalism that critiqued some of the motifs
