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Ecofeminism

claudia wittig

Ecofeminism

Ecofeminism

deep feminist awareness of the socio-environmental crisis

  • Nuclear war and climate change: sinister panorama contrasts with the international advance of feminist consciousness
  • Fighting the ecological crisis is a matter of survival for those who can't afford to be conformist
  • Great interest from women poses the need for diverse understandings of the crisis

"The ultimate result of the unbridled and terminal patriarchy will be the ecological catastrophe or the nuclear holocaust [...] We need to transform the model itself."

Petra Kelly, 1997

Ecofeminism

ECOFEMINISM VS. TECHNOLOGY

FEMINISM VS. ECOFEMINISM

  • Doesn't imply going back to pretechnological societies
  • Neither about technophobia not technolatry
  • Rudimentary past is harmful for women; we should move on to a moderate future
  • Feminism has looked at ecofeminism with suspicion
  • The exaltation of the sanctity of life conflicts with struggles to separate sexual desire and pleasure from reproduction
  • Woman = mother back to a patriarchal past

ECOLOGY AND HEALTH

RACHEL CARSON

Ecofeminism

  • International sorority requires ecojustice
  • Ecofeminist perspective is necessary in times like these
  • To recognize the knowledge of indigenous women is not incompatible with enlightment
  • Sexual division of labor based on assumptions of different virtues
  • Care work related to nature devaluated while more virile tasks are more valued
  • Need to overcome the idea of dominion over nature, it's not a mere resource

Antispeciesism

BODIES ARE NOT ALIEN TO NATURE

  • Nature is both external and internal
  • Women's bodies subject to violence and exploitation
  • Objects for pleasure and/or reproduction
  • Other species have been also subject of reproductive extractivism

References

McCabe, J. 2019. 50 conceptos sobre el feminismo. Orìgenes, ideas y desarrollo. España: Blume

Puleo, A. 2022. El ecofeminismo, conciencia feminista profunda de la crisis socioambiental. Análisis Carolina. Serie Género.

Puleo, A. 2008. Libertad, igualdad, sostenibilidad. Por un ecofeminismo ilustrado. ISEGORÍA. Revista de filosofía moral y política 38: 39-59

Ruiz- Navarro, C. 2020. Las mujeres que luchan se encuentran. Manual de feminismo pop latinoamericano. México: Grijalbo.