Ecofeminism

“Continuing to degrade our environment by using fossil fuels is just like the oppression of women in today’s society! The exploitation of the environment is the root cause of women’s oppression,” a debater yelled in the middle of his round. Over the summer, I attended the Stanford National Forensic Institute. I had the opportunity to study and appreciate the basics of nuclear power. Progressing into a greener future where society is concerned with global warming, “our best energy option for the…

An analysis on how patriarchy is undermining the growth of women. A case study of The Colour Purple. 1. BACKGROUND Patriarchy is a social system where man holds primary power and predominant moral authority, social privileges and political power. The fathers exercise power over his wife and children. Patriarchy is undermining women’s growth economically and socially there by impacting the growth and development of the country at large Despite the economic social and developmental achievements…

The topic of this paper is the animal rights movement. This issue of animal rights appealed to many people, creating such a powerful movement that is still growing and fighting for the rights of animals today. These social movements have the power to spark huge changes within societies, legislation, and the lives of many living beings. Rise of the Movement The fight for animal rights is one that has been going on for centuries. “The new emphasis upon animals ' feelings of sensation in the…

Impact and Accomplishments of Environmental Sustainability Movement Environmental sustainability as a social movement has grown and evolved to be a societal phenomenon, gathering massive supporters, advocates, global recognition and political interest. The movement since its inception, has recorded a great deal of accomplishments worthy of note. Perhaps the most renowned and early accomplishments dates back to 1916, when the National Park Service was established. Gottlieb (2005) notes how…

Ancilla Flemens Professor Christina Holmes WGSS 362A: Feminist Approaches to Environmentalism Friday, November 15, 2017 Finding Environmental Justice in Our Skin Care Routines “Environmental justice, environmental health, climate change, plastic pollution, and other movements stress that the human is “trans-corporeal,” inseparable from substances and materials that cross through bodies and environments. Thinking of oneself as utterly exposed to toxins and climates makes environmentalism…

Her torpid brain is an irritated organ, but once she engages in the "gymnastics" of following the paper's pattern her neuroses calm into studious activity. Her diary entries mark her increasing fascination with a heavily patterned wallpaper as she turns her excess energy toward understanding its bizarre forms and speculating on the history of the room itself. Borrowing a scientific method, she uses reason, principles, and laws to trace the absurdities of form surrounding her. Natural imagery…

(2003). Medicine Across Cultures: History and Practice of Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. Kluwer Academic Publishers. Great Britain McCarthy Brown, K. (n.d). The Power to Heal: Haitian Women in Vodou. Retrieved from: http://blogs.dickinson.edu/ecofeminism/files/2012/05/The-Power-to-Heal.pdf McGrath, B. (1999). Swimming from Island to Island: healing Practice in Tonga. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 13, 483-505. Retrieved from: http://www.jstor.org/stable/649560 Michel, C.,…

Epics in India and elsewhere have always been a rich reservoir of tales. Time and again, different perspectives emerge from the re-readings of these ancient tales, inspired by the challenges thrown up by the vicissitude of contemporary life. As Workman has observed “…the literary attractiveness of mythology is due to its enduring depiction of significant and sometime very uncomfortable relationships, some admittedly between man and his environment, but others of at least equal importance between…

ecological approach to contesting Earth’s future is to distinguish between the vital and the nonvital needs of humans. The vital needs of nonhumans get priority before the non vital needs of humans. Deep Ecology, Radical Ecology, Social Ecology, and EcoFeminism, and the critical postmodernism directed towards bringing together and integrating the richness and diversity of all life. All ecological problems are social problems. Thus, Ecocriticism in a broad…