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Ecofeminism - Coggle Diagram
Ecofeminism
Main ideas
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Holds that most environmental issues can be traced back to the global prioritization of qualities deemed masculine (particularly the ones some would regard as toxic, like aggression and domination)
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Ecofeminist theory asserts that capitalism reflects only paternalistic and patriarchal values. This notion implies that the effects of capitalism have not benefited women and has led to a harmful split between nature and culture
Origins
United States by a coalition of academic and professional women during the late 1970s and early 1980s
Discuss the ways in which feminism and environmentalism might be combined to promote respect for women and the natural world and were motivated by the notion that a long historical precedent of associating women with nature had led to the oppression of both.
They noted that women and nature were often depicted as chaotic, irrational, and in need of control, while men were frequently characterized as rational, ordered, and thus capable of directing the use and development of women and nature.
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Referents
Early work on ecofeminism - first documenting historical connections between women and the environment.
One founder of ecofeminism, theologian Rosemary Ruether, insisted that all women must acknowledge and work to end the domination of nature if they were to work toward their own liberation.
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Criticism
The biggest criticism of ecofeminism comes back to the idea of essentialism, or "a belief that things have set characteristics."
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A. E. Kings comments on the relationship between ecofeminism and intersectionality, arguing that the discipline is fundamentally intersectional given that it is built upon the idea that patriarchal violence against women is connected to domination of nature
Symbols
Vandana Shiva: wrote that women have a special connection to the environment through their daily interactions
Carolyn Merchant: author of Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution,