New Directions for Ecofeminism: Toward a More Feminist Ecocriticism

Third Wave Feminism

Creative Saplings, 2022

Ecofeminism is the missing link that connects woman and nature, while tracing out the patriarchal structures of exploitation and oppression. This paper searches for the origination of 'Ecofeminism' that lies somewhere in the fusion of 'Feminism' and 'Ecology.' While defining the concept of 'Feminism', it explores its different forms along with its chronological order through wave metaphor. Feminism nurtures the sapling of Ecofeminism, and with the passage of time, it turns into a tree that bears fruits of the various forms which can be viewed through different perspectives. It presents roots, routes and fruits that come out of 'Feminism' and 'Ecofeminism.' Knowing nature leads to knowing woman, and knowing woman, leads to knowing nature. The real emancipation lies in saving the earth and woman from exploitation and oppression.

International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2008

University of British Columbia Press eBooks, 2015

Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2022

In times of devastating ecological crisis, where can we find a route map to collectively halt current trends of destruction? In this review, we exam- ine feminist studies’ recent contributions to activism and theorizing regard- ing extraction, emerging ecologies, and multispecies justice. By bringing in salient research from the fields of feminist political ecology, ecofeminism, and decolonial/anticolonial feminisms, we point to the ways in which femi- nist thought and action has opened up spaces for recognizing, envisioning, and making life-affirming ecologies rather than extractive systems of de- struction. We refer to the former as emergent and emancipatory ecologies, that is, ecologies always in the process of becoming and capable of defying and subverting oppression based on gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, caste, ability, species and other forms of discrimination—and, thus, capable of protecting and defending life and living worlds.

he Eastern Ghats, ENVIS, Newsletter, Environment protection Training And Research Institute, Vol.9, No.1, pp.7-8., 2003

Feminismo/s, 2013

Taking into account the material feminist theories of "agency," "matter," and "body," this essay examines to what extent material feminisms and trans-corporeality can be productive models for conceptualizing feminist ecocriticism, an anti-phallogocentric ecocritical theory that analyzes the complex dynamics of material agencies across human and nonhuman bodies. By contesting gendered dualities and bodily boundaries, it opens up new ecocritical pathways to deconstruct the sexist, speciesist, and homophobic discourses of nature which served as a rhetorical strategy to associate female and queer human beings with animals/nature. Feminist ecocriticism is also a form of literary criticism that examines these issues in literary texts. Richard Powers novel Gain provides a palpable example as it highlights the permeability of bodily natures

2009

Combining feminist and ecological approaches, ecofeminism opposes the domination of the white male over women, over the poor and over the natural world. Virginie Maris surveys epistemological, moral and social forms of the ecofeminist critique, drawing conclusions about the association between reductionist science and paternalist capitalism.

NWSA Journal, 2000