The Dualism Of Deep Ecofeminism

Francoise D’ Eaubonne was the first to coin the term “ecofeminism”, a movement combining feminism and environmentalism. Feminism is defined as the movement of women towards social and economic equality between men and women. Ecology is the study of humans and their interactions with the environment. Many aspects within the feminist movement, the peace movement, and the environmentalist and green movements can be seen within ecofeminism. Ecofeminists and ecofeminism is the belief that environmentalism and feminism are intrinsically connected. Most forms of ecofeminism rely a historical analysis of ideology. The emergence of a patriarchy system can be seen as one of the many examples. The patriarchal system is the idea of ‘dualism’, views of …show more content…
The idea of deep ecology emphasizes that human beings are only part of the ecology of the planet and through understanding their role with the whole, we can understand the rest of the ecology. The ecofeminism criticism of deep ecology is deep ecology’s anthropocentric thinking about human-nature relationships. The dualism of human versus nature is one that revolves around male-centered thinking. Deep ecologist fails to see how dualism historically fails to take into account the connotative domination of man over women and nature. This is part of the conceptual framework that is in ecofeminism: oppositional and mutually exclusive value dualisms. By placing greater value on one over the other, there will always be words that will be attributed towards man and words attributed towards woman. The connotation of human represented by man, and the connotation of nature represented by woman is just one of these examples that challenge deep …show more content…
The human self, is only a small part of the entire holistic Self. It is similar to the ecofeminism due to a lack of world’s women in human rights, liberties, and education, whereas many men have the rights, liberties, and access to education. From this man will and can only reach the holistic self and never the woman, who remains a part of the human self, making the view of self-holistic false. The value of ecofeminism compared to deep ecology is that it takes into account dualism and hierarchlism. The patriarchal classification system will always lead to the downfall and destruction of Earth and its many natural resources. When deep ecologists finally acknowledges and realize the role that dualism and patriarchal system play in deep ecology, then they will discover a newer and deeper meaning to deep ecology. Ecofeminism is the movement that connects the environment and women. There is a profound difference in the way men have self-worth compared to the way women have self-worth along with the differences between how men and women experience the world. Understanding the connection between exploitation of the natural environment and the oppression in women is one that is necessary to promote a better