Critical Ecofeminism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critical Ecofeminism write by Greta Gaard. This book was released on 2017-05-15. Critical Ecofeminism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book affirms its feminist and activist roots, resists gender essentialisms, and companions the activist orientations of critical animal studies and environmental justice. It draws on feminist science and anticolonial studies, utilizing a posthumanist, queer feminist methodology to enhance discussions of today's ecopolitical challenges.
Critical Ecofeminism
Critical Ecofeminism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critical Ecofeminism write by Greta Gaard. This book was released on 2017-06-16. Critical Ecofeminism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Australian feminist philosopher Val Plumwood coined the term “critical ecofeminism” to “situate humans in ecological terms and non-humans in ethical terms,” for “the two tasks are interconnected, and cannot be addressed properly in isolation from each other.” Variously using the terms “critical ecological feminism,” “critical anti-dualist ecological feminism,” and “critical ecofeminism,” Plumwood’s work developed amid a range of perspectives describing feminist intersections with ecopolitical issues—i.e., toxic production and toxic wastes, indigenous sovereignty, global economic justice, species justice, colonialism and dominant masculinity. Well over a decade before the emergence of posthumanist theory and the new materialisms, Plumwood’s critical ecofeminist framework articulates an implicit posthumanism and respect for the animacy of all earthothers, exposing the linkages among diverse forms of oppression, and providing a theoretical basis for further activist coalitions and interdisciplinary scholarship. Had Plumwood lived another ten years, she might have described her work as “Anthropocene Ecofeminism,” “Critical Material Ecofeminism,” “Posthumanist Anticolonial Ecofeminism”—all of these inflections are present in her work. Here, Critical Ecofeminism advances upon Plumwood’s intellectual, activist, and scholarly work by exploring its implications for a range of contemporary perspectives and issues--critical animal studies, plant studies, sustainability studies, environmental justice, climate change and climate justice, masculinities and sexualities. With the insights available through a critical ecofeminism, these diverse eco-justice perspectives become more robust.
Ecofeminism and Rhetoric
Ecofeminism and Rhetoric - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ecofeminism and Rhetoric write by Douglas A. Vakoch. This book was released on 2011-08-01. Ecofeminism and Rhetoric available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By drawing on the complex interplay of ecology and feminism, ecofeminists identify links between the domination of nature and the oppression of women. This volume introduces a variety of innovative approaches for advancing ecofeminist activism, demonstrating how words exert power in the world. Contributors explore the interconnections between the dualisms of nature/culture and masculine/feminine, providing new insights into sex and technology through such wide-ranging topics as canine reproduction, orangutan motherhood and energy conservation. Ecofeminist rhetorics of care address environmental problems through cooperation and partnership, rather than hierarchical subordination, encouraging forms of communication that value mutual understanding over persuasion and control. By critically examining ways that theory can help deconstruct domineering practices—exposing the underlying ideologies—a new generation of ecofeminist scholarship illuminates the transformative capacity of language to foster emancipation and liberation.
Ecofeminism
Ecofeminism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ecofeminism write by Greta Gaard. This book was released on 2010-09-03. Ecofeminism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Feminist scholars and activists explore the relationships among humans, animals, and the natural environment.
Feminist Ecocriticism
Feminist Ecocriticism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Feminist Ecocriticism write by Douglas A. Vakoch. This book was released on 2012. Feminist Ecocriticism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After uncovering the oppressive dichotomies of male/female and nature/culture that underlie contemporary environmental problems, Feminist Ecocriticism focuses specifically on emancipatory strategies employed by ecofeminist literary critics as antidotes, asking what our lives might be like as those strategies become increasingly successful in overcoming oppression. Thus, ecofeminism is not limited to the critique of literature, but also helps identify and articulate liberatory ideals that can be actualized in the real world, in the process transforming everyday life. Providing an alternative to rugged individualism, for example, ecofeminist literature promotes a more fulfilling sense of interrelationship with both community and the land. In the process of exploring literature from ecofeminist perspectives, the book reveals strategies of emancipation that have already begun to give rise to more hopeful ecological narratives.
