Our human community and population existence depends solely upon healthy systems of plants, water, soil, and air around the world. The pollution and destruction of these natural systems has been studied since the sixties, and from this study the science of ecology and ecofeminism emerged. Ecofeminism concerns the male domination over women in the world and its connection to the destruction of the natural world. Nature and women both hold a very inferior position in the world, which, link them together. It is thought that women are more concerned with nature than men because of their simple but very complex role in life.
Although we live in a very male dominated world and society, nature has always been given a female identity. This female …show more content…
Due to the common perception that nature is associated as a woman, or given a female identity, and a man is dominant over a woman, humans are also dominant over nature, using it at their disposal and for their every need. Nature is under the rule and domination of the human race, and women are looked at to be less or inferior to the male gender. This similar domination over women and nature is said to be the link between women and the destruction of nature around the …show more content…
"Cultural ecofeminism is a response to the perception that women and nature have been mutually associated and devalued in western culture."(Twine 2) Historically women, more so than men, have been seen as having a closer relationship to nature because of their physiology, social roles, and psychology. Women may be associated to nature more closely than men because of their roles in the process of life. "Women bring forth life from their bodies, undergoing the pleasures, pain, and stigmas attached to menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, and nursing, while men’s physiology leaves them freer to travel, hunt, conduct warfare, and engage in public affairs."(Twine 5) "Social ecofeminism advocates the liberation of women through overturning economic and social hierarchies that turn all aspects of life into a market society that today even invades the womb."(Twine
Although we live in a very male dominated world and society, nature has always been given a female identity. This female …show more content…
Due to the common perception that nature is associated as a woman, or given a female identity, and a man is dominant over a woman, humans are also dominant over nature, using it at their disposal and for their every need. Nature is under the rule and domination of the human race, and women are looked at to be less or inferior to the male gender. This similar domination over women and nature is said to be the link between women and the destruction of nature around the …show more content…
"Cultural ecofeminism is a response to the perception that women and nature have been mutually associated and devalued in western culture."(Twine 2) Historically women, more so than men, have been seen as having a closer relationship to nature because of their physiology, social roles, and psychology. Women may be associated to nature more closely than men because of their roles in the process of life. "Women bring forth life from their bodies, undergoing the pleasures, pain, and stigmas attached to menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, and nursing, while men’s physiology leaves them freer to travel, hunt, conduct warfare, and engage in public affairs."(Twine 5) "Social ecofeminism advocates the liberation of women through overturning economic and social hierarchies that turn all aspects of life into a market society that today even invades the womb."(Twine