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    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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    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…

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    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…

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    Dualism In Ecofeminism

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    Ecofeminism has many women/nature interconnections, but three claims are vital empirical, conceptual and epistemological. The empirical claim shows that the first victim of impact of environmental deterioration is women. As Heather Eaton vocalizes, “Ecofeminists’ empirical claim examines sociopolitical and economic structures that restrict many women’s lives to poverty, ecological deprivation, and economic powerlessness. The degradation of environment has affected women in the most parts of…

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    (a) ECO-CRITICISM Eco-criticism originated in a bio-social context of unrestrained capitalism, excessive exploitation of nature and worrying shapes of environmental hazards. It sees how a ‘literary text’ contributes into the ‘construction’ of nature and the politics of development (Nayar, 241). Eco-criticism focuses on the link between literature and nature. Raymond Williams in his ‘The Country and the City’(1973) elegantly argued how English Literature contributed to specific notions of nature…

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    in the entire natural world. From the past thirty years, ecofeminism literature has been combining the environmentalist focus on reconnection of nature with the feminist focus on gender equality. The combination produces a feminist view on environmentalism that is concerned with the degradation of both earth and its people. Ecofeminism foregoes a back-to-nature approach and in turn incites a wake-up call to humanity for urgency. Ecofeminist writers like insist that there lies an inherent…

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    Southern literature encompasses numerous themes, one of which is the ideology of ecofeminism. Ecofeminism itself is “the intersection between feminism and ecology”(Bennet 63), this ideology focuses on two principal concepts; one, that all things are interconnected, and a belief in a “society based on cooperation and balance rather than dominance and hierarchy” (Bennet 64). Prominent themes of ecofeminism, especially regarding southern literature, include racial segregation and male dominance,…

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    ‘Saving the world, everyone wants to; men think they can do it with guns, women with their bodies, love conquers all, conquers love all, mirages raised by words (p212) The work along with its undeniable significance in writer’s career, signifies development of an emotional and personal momentum beyond ecofeminism about saving the world. This featured quality makes the particular work a moral optimistic , suggesting the possibility of resolution ,and it is this characteristic of which disposes it…

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    In what ways does ecofeminism align with the concept of sustainability? Ecofeminism is a movement that applies feminist principles and ideas to ecological issues. Sustainability is the ability to be used without being completely used up or destroyed. Ecofeminism aligns with the concept of sustainability by supporting the well-being of the environment and the equality of everything that inhabits it, including humans. It has become very apparent that the balance of nature has been heavily tampered…

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    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…

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