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European Journal of Women's Studies, 2013

After the cultural turn, it has become necessary to reconsider society’s relations to nature. This article provides a theoretically sound basis for feminist interventions in global environmental policies drawing on feminist economics and queer ecologies to theorize material(ist) perspectives on gender and nature. This is the starting point for rethinking social and gender relations to nature from the resource politics approach. Beyond the feminization of environmental responsibility this approach aims at an understanding of human life embedded in material and discursive processes – without putting the potential (re)productivity of the female body on the ideological pedestal of heterosexual maternity.

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

After the cultural turn, it has become necessary to reconsider society's relations to nature. This article provides a theoretically sound basis for feminist interventions in global environmental policies drawing on feminist economics and queer ecologies to theorize material(ist) perspectives on gender and nature. This is the starting point for rethinking social and gender relations to nature from the resource politics approach. Beyond the feminization of environmental responsibility this approach aims at an understanding of human life embedded in material and discursive processes -without putting the potential (re)productivity of the female body on the ideological pedestal of heterosexual maternity.

New Perspectives on Environmental Justice, 2020

Although many ecofeminists acknowledge heterosexism as a problem, a systematic exploration of the potential intersections of ecofeminist and queer theories has yet to be made. By interrogating social constructions of the "natural," the various uses of Christianity as a logic of domination, and the rhetoric of colonialism, this essay finds those theoretical intersections and argues for the importance of developing a queer ecofeminism. Progressive activists and scholars frequently lament the disunity of the political left in the United States. Often characterized as a "circular firing squad," the left or progressive movement has been known for its intellectual debates and hostilities, which have served to polarize many groups that could be working in coalition: labor activists, environmentalists, civil rights activists, feminists, animal rights activists, indigenous rights activists, and gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender (G/L/B/T) activists. Meanwhile, it is observed, the conservative right in the United States has lost no time in recognizing the connections among these various liberatory movements and has launched a campaign (most recently articulated in the "Contract with America") to ensure their collective annihilation. As a result, it seems the future of progressive organizing may well depend on how effectively scholars and activists can recognize and articulate our many bases for coalition. In theory and in practice, ecofeminism has already contributed much to this effort. At the root of ecofeminism is the understanding that the many systems of oppression are mutually reinforcing. Building on the socialist feminist insight that racism, classism, and sexism are interconnected, ecofeminists recognized additional similarities between those forms of human oppression and the oppressive structures of speciesism and naturism. An early impetus for the ecofeminist movement was the realization that the liberation of women-the aim of all branches of feminism-cannot be fully effected without the liberation of nature; and conversely, the liberation of nature so ardently desired by environmentalists will not be fully effected without the liberation of women: conceptual, symbolic, empirical, and historical linkages between women and nature as they are constructed in Western culture require feminists and environmentalists to address these liberatory efforts together if we are to be successful (Warren 1991). To date, ecofeminist theory has blossomed, exploring the connections among many issues: racism, environmental degradation, economics, electoral politics, animal liberation, reproductive politics, biotechnology, bioregionalism, spirituality, holistic health practices, sustainable agriculture, and others. Ecofeminist activists have worked in the environmental justice movement, the Green movement, the anti-toxics movement, the women's spirituality movement, the animal liberation movement, and the movement for economic justice. To continue and build on these efforts toward coalition, I would like to explore in this essay the connection between ecofeminism and queer theory. "We have to examine how racism, heterosexism, classism, ageism, and sexism are all related to naturism," writes ecofeminist author Ellen O'Loughlin (1993 , 148). Chaia Heller elaborates: "Love of nature is a process of becoming aware of and unlearning ideologies of racism, sexism, heterosexism, and ableism so that we may cease to reduce our idea of nature to a dark, heterosexual, 'beautiful' mother" (1993, 231). But as Catriona Sandilands astutely comments, "It is not enough simply to add 'heterosexism' to the long list of dominations that shape our relations to nature, to pretend that we can just'add queers and stir' " (1994, 21). Unfortunately, it is exactly this approach

Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 1997

This issue of Green Theory and Praxis came about as a response to conversations regarding whether ecofeminism had adequately engaged with queer theory and also the converse, whether queer theory has engaged ecofeminism. At times these two bodies of knowledge have heavily influenced one another but the potential of combining both fields has sadly often been overlooked. This issue seeks to bridge this divide. However, after receiving a variety of submissions we realized that for this edition to achieve our goal that it had to move away from just a queering of ecofeminism. Instead we realized that it needed to address the environmental justice and animal liberation movements more sweepingly.

1996

At a recent conference, I attended a performance on ecofeminism that presented a convincing barrage of slides, mainly from advertisements, depicting women and the earth in similarly degrading ways. Sympathetic to the environmentalist and feminist politics, I was nonetheless dismayed by the finale, which baldly celebrated a slide of a naked, pregnant woman, implicitly evoking that old connection between the fertile female and the fecund earth. Within the context of the presentation, the spherical belly functioned as a maternal disciplining of the sexual “bad girls” exhibited in the advertisements, thus retreating to a Madonna/whore dualism that denigrates female sexuality even while naturalizing the female body as primarily procreative. I begin with this example to suggest that “woman” and “nature” converge upon a perilous terrain that solidifies the very representations of “woman” that feminism, especially poststructuralist or postmodern feminism, has worked to dislodge. >– link ...

Feminist Political Ecology and the Economics of Care. In Search of Economic Alternatives, 2019

Drawing from some of the leading ecofeminist critical works to date and considering the constant development of new perspectives and future strategies, the aim of my work is to explore some of the predominant vectors of the current ecofeminist theory and praxis. My plan is to review a significant part of the broad contours of the feminist debate since the beginning of the new millennium, proving that there have been substantial advances in both environmental and gender studies, most noticeably in North America, Australia and Europe. Focusing on the new material feminisms, interspecies and animal studies, ecojustice, queer studies, and ecofeminist bioethics, I have concentrated on the work of scholars and activists that are thinking, organizing and planning outside the traditional feminist frameworks and have generated cultural revaluations, have resisted gender injustice and have inspired environmental improvement.

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