ECOLOGY AND ECOFEMINISM

Ecology and Eco-feminism



Ecology and Eco-feminism

Eco-feminism

The term eco-feminism refers to a plurality of positions that have revolved around the movements from late 1970 to early 1980 which comprises of the Western feminist movement (radical, liberal and socialist) and the peace movement. Eco-feminism is a school of thought that appeared in Europe in the last years of the twentieth century. Eco-feminism was born as an answer, since the movement defined male ownership of agriculture and breeding (i.e. the soil fertility and fecundity of women), which was considered a consequence of development Western patriarchal and economist.

According to eco-feminism, this appropriation would have resulted in two pernicious effects. First, is the overuse of land and the commoditization of female sexuality. Cultural ecofeminism focuses on the biological differences between men and women and provides an ideal link between women and nature due to the ability of women to give birth. This approach is quite speculative, and implicitly seems to harbor naturalistic conventions, i.e., laws that should regulate the actions of vital nature of women, which is paradoxical (Gebara 2003, 93).

Social eco-feminism, relates the oppression of women with deterioration of nature, and notes that patriarchal values ??are the producers of both problems. It came as a solution to defend the claim about female-values. Social eco-feminism has influenced some theories. This paradigm of analysis is clearly suggestive of Marxist theorizing. With the modification the mode of production would not be the cause of alienation apparently, but merely the historical imposition of patriarchy in various forms of social organization.

Although eco-feminism emerged in different countries around the same time, in France, Germany, USA, Italy, Japan, Venezuela, Australia and Finland, United States was the one who dominated the first contributions to the current eco-feminist. Eco-feminism revolved around two streams: the radical feminist/cultural/spiritual, which tended to emphasize the natural affinity for women with the natural world and the one more oriented towards social policy perspectives derived from socialism and Marxism. Eco-feminism has been identified primarily with the current radical/cultural/spiritual themes. This has led him to critique the essentialist. Trying to make a precise classification of the different eco-feminists positions, as well as its principal authors, is complex and could fall into reductionism (Adams 1993, 1).

The so-called ecological feminism or eco-feminism offer the possibility to ecology of integrating theory and praxis in critical gender perspective and provide a feminism fuller picture of the problem of the domination of women. Eco-feminism does not intend to present a homogeneous solution to one problem but as the association of two critical positions. Both issues, the domination of nature and domination of women arising from the same pattern of thinking as the logic of domination, it becomes less different and conquerable. The environmental degradation and exploitation are feminist concerns because an understanding of them contributes to an understanding of the oppression of women. But the connection is not only eco-feminist conceptual or historical, not merely states that the sociological categories nature and female are built into the patriarchal imaginary common features, but evidence and material consequences of this double daily construction ...