Feminism unites with ecologism to form ecofeminism, has made remarkable achievements in a new doctrine. In our traditional view, the feminism means that the female tried to strive for the equal rights as male does in political, economic, and social life, therefore to get the right way of female liberation and overturn the patriarchy. The ecologism fought for the rights that could present all organisms in ecosystem as being valuable things. As ecofeminism, it was concerned about relationship between the domination to women and the rule to nature, and criticized human’s conquest of nature, and male cultural hegemony from the angle of human existence and development. As Warren said about the heart of ecofeminism, it is an activist social justice
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The conclusion that she gives out is a reversal of the logic of patriarchal destruction requires “putting women and children first” (P150). Cuomo argues far more strongly than traditional environmental ethicists, she concludes that ecofeminist ethics can be helpful in fostering practices and institutions to promote universal flourishing that emphasized to pay interests of the person who does the valuing and also the thing that is being valued (P151). Mary Mellor has contribution to make to understanding that women have a particular perspective on the relationship between humanity and nonhuman nature. She also states the “deep materialism” is a solution to the realities of environment ethic and justice …show more content…
However, the traditional liberal approach gives less focus on the liberal foundations and animal rights. Mary Mellor describes women’s work and lives as standing at intersection of destructive economies and the natural world. In order to bring ecology and feminism together, ecofeminist see women and nature as subject to the same destructive socioeconomic and technological systems of modern male-dominated society (P223). This could explain as if women enter the socioeconomic life, they have to give up her basic women’s work, such as subsistence work and care of their family
The conclusion that she gives out is a reversal of the logic of patriarchal destruction requires “putting women and children first” (P150). Cuomo argues far more strongly than traditional environmental ethicists, she concludes that ecofeminist ethics can be helpful in fostering practices and institutions to promote universal flourishing that emphasized to pay interests of the person who does the valuing and also the thing that is being valued (P151). Mary Mellor has contribution to make to understanding that women have a particular perspective on the relationship between humanity and nonhuman nature. She also states the “deep materialism” is a solution to the realities of environment ethic and justice …show more content…
However, the traditional liberal approach gives less focus on the liberal foundations and animal rights. Mary Mellor describes women’s work and lives as standing at intersection of destructive economies and the natural world. In order to bring ecology and feminism together, ecofeminist see women and nature as subject to the same destructive socioeconomic and technological systems of modern male-dominated society (P223). This could explain as if women enter the socioeconomic life, they have to give up her basic women’s work, such as subsistence work and care of their family