Young Eco Facilitators

Source: https://www.weact.org/2016/06/growing-the-roots-of-ecofeminism/ The preceding accounts identifies eight sorts of connectionsbetween the domination of women and the domination of nature thathave been defended by ecofeminists. It also indicates both generallyand specifically (in terms of the four essays included in thissection) the nature of the challenges that acceptance of theseconnections poses for contemporary feminism, environmentalism, andenvironmental philosophy. But if the power and promise of ecologicalfeminism runs as deep as many ecofeminists suppose, there must beimplications of ecofeminism for mainstream philosophy as well. Whatare some of these? The historical lmks suggest that data from the social sciences onwomen, development, and the environment are important undertakings inmany areas of philosophy. For instance, in ethics such data raiseimportant issues about anthropocentric and androcentric bias. Canmainstream normative ethical theories generate an ...

Source: https://goo.gl/eAi7aZ As review of the literature overview given in Part 1. reveals, the fouressays included in this section provide only a glimpse of thepositions advocated by ecofeminists. Still, together they raiseissues across all eight categories of woman-nature connectionsthat were identified above. Their inclusion here provides a sample ofthe philosophically relevant contributions ecofeminist historians, sociologists, and philosophers have made to ecofeminist andenvironmental philosophy. Historian of environmental science Carolyn Merchant published herhighly influential book The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology andthe Scientific Revolution in 1980. In it she argues that priorto the seventeenth century, nature was conceived on an organic modelas a benevolent female and a nurturing mother; after the scientificrevolution, nature was conceived on a mechanistic model as (mere)machine, inert, dead. On both models, nature was female. Merchantargues that the move from the...

Source: https://goo.gl/eAi7aZ There are at least eight sorts of connections that ecofeministshave identified. These alleged connections provide sometimescompeting, sometimes mutually complementary or supportive, analysesof the nature of the twin dominations of women and nature. A casual,albeit philosophically uncritical, perusal of these eight allegedconnections helps to identify the range and variety of ecofeministpositions on woman-nature connections. 1. Historical, Typically Causal, Connections. One allegedconnection between women and nature is historical. When historicaldata are used to generate theories concerning the sources of thedominations of women and nature, it is also causal. So pervasive isthe historical-causal theme in ecofeminist writing that Ariel Sallehpractically defines ecofeminism in terms of it: "Eco-feminism is arecent development in feminist thought which argues that the currentglobal environmental crisis is a predictable outcome of patriarchalcultur...

Source: http://sustyvibes.com/the-meaning-of-ecofeminism/ Just as there is not one feminism, there is not one ecofeminism."Ecological feminism is the name given to a variety of positions thathave roots in different feminist practices and philosophies. Thesedifferent perspectives reflect not only different feministperspectives (e.g., liberal, traditional Marxist, radical, socialist,black and Third World), they also reflect different understandings ofthe nature of and solution to pressing environmental problems (seeWarren 1987). So, it is an open question how many, which, and on whatgrounds any of the various positions in environmental philosophy thatacknowledge feminist concerns or claim to be feminist are properlyidentified as ecofeminist positions. What one takes to be a genuineecofeminist position will depend largely on how one conceptualizesboth feminism and ecofeminism. For instance, suppose by "feminism" one means "liberal feminism."Liberal feminis...

Introduction by Karen J. Warren Source: http://www.uisio.com/envisioning-an-ecofeminist-social-transformation/ The past few decades have witnessed an enormous interest in boththe women's movement and the ecology (environmental) movement. Manyfeminists have argued that the goals of these two movements aremutually reinforcing; ultimately they involve the development ofworldviews and practices that are not based on male-biasedmodels of domination. As Rosemary Ruether wrote in 1975 in her book,New Woman/NewEarth: Women must see that there can be no liberation for them and nosolution to the ecological crisis within a society whose fundamentalmodel of relationships continues to be one of domination. They mustunite the demands of the women's movement with those of theecological movement to envision a radical reshaping of the basicsocioeconomic relations and the underlying values of this [modernindustrial] society. (204) Since the early 1970s, many feminists, especially ecol...