Ecofeminism

It can be analogised as a ‘quilt’ (Warren 2000), in the sense that each ‘patch’ of ecofeminism is unique but agrees on the condition necessary to belong to ‘the quilt’. The common philosophy that ecofeminists commune on is that there are connections between the ‘isms’ of domination, especially between women and nature and that “such domination is neither justified nor inevitable” (ibid, p43). Ecofeminism analyses this unjustified domination and human involvement while drawing on other…

Ecocritical literary representations are not generated by cultures, they generate those cultures. Radical ecofeminism reverses the domination of man over woman and nature. Leaving the opposite outcome, the woman domination of land. This is drawn upon the conclusion that women are inherently closer to nature biologically, spiritually, and emotionally. In contrast to that another part of ecofeminism is the idea that there is no such thing as a feminine essence that would make women more likely…

Women Healing Earth is written by Rosemary Radfrod Ruether. This book is a series of essays from different types of women with different cultures. Starting from Latino America, Asia, and Africa. These women are writing in a perspective of a female theologians in the developing world. The reading is grouped into three sections these sections go into depth with the traditional religion these women practice. Also indigenous women are brought up in a more wide- spread religion. Lastly the white…

Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin in their book "Postcolonial Ecocriticism" give a variety of important terms in postcolonial ecocriticism and ecofeminism, these terms are: ecological imperialism, biocolonialism and environmental racism. First, ecological imperialism, Alfred Crosby's term, "which ranges in implication and intensity from the violent appropriation of indigenous land to the ill-considered introduction of non-domestic livestock and European agricultural practices." Huggan and Tiffin…

An activism that explored the connection between the exploitation of the natural world and women that emerged during the 1980s generated a work by Leslie Marmon Silko, known as “Yellow Woman”, written in 1981. This movement grew among women from the anti-nuclear, environmental, and lesbian-feminist movements. Through the course of Silko’s short story, the connections that exist between female and nature are exposed, and help to further comprehend the narrator’s struggle with identity in a…

In this paper, I will explain how the article “‘I See the Same Ho’: Video Vixens, Beauty Culture, and Diasporic Sex Tourism” by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting is related to the thematic theme of the violated body and ecofeminism. Tong explains in Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction, that ecofeminist focus on human beings’ domination of nature. Ecofeminist also argue that women are connected to nature because they are dominated in a similar manner by men. Consequently, men in…

There are many different ethical theories pertaining to the environment; theories about how the environment works, ways to protect it, what's morally right and so on. Some of the theories include biocentrism, deep ecology and ecofeminism. With these theories comes different view points on each one. If something has extrinsic or intrinsic value, arguments on moral status, and other factors that play into every individual ethical theory. When talking about ethical theories, it is important to take…

 The relationship between green crimes and criminology and makes mention of the treatment of domestic animals and compares it against the treatment of persons in terms of domestic violence, and other serious forms of crimes such as serial killings.  The need for lawmakers to look at the existing laws that govern criminology and look at it in a broader sense to include laws that deals with environmental crimes, because it does not affect just the environment but all living things be it plant…

These are the focus, language, and motivation. First, it focuses on contemporary issues which are affecting the current generation of readers who are living in the globalization era. In the modern day, the topics of environmentalism, feminism, ecofeminism and eco-imperialism are attention grabbing.…

“The patriarchal world view sees man as the measure of all value, with no space for diversity, only for hierarchy. Woman, being different, is treated as unequal and inferior.” (Shiva 164) Random and reckless industrialization and commercialization in recent years have resulted in thoughtless exploitation of nature and its precious resources. In the great name of development and progression, nature with all its benevolent resources has been subjected to merciless plundering with the consequence…