Feminist Ecologies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction: ‘Street-Fighters and Philosophers’: Traversing Ecofeminisms

   • Lara Stevens, Peta Tait, Denise Varney

   Pages 1-22

3. Foundational Ecofeminisms

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. Deeper than Deep Ecology: The Eco-Feminist Connection

      • Ariel Salleh

      Pages 25-33

   3. Relating to Nature: Deep Ecology or Ecofeminism?

      • Freya Mathews

      Pages 35-55

   4. Women and Nature Revisited: Ecofeminist Reconfigurations of an Old Association

      • Kate Rigby

      Pages 57-81

   5. Women and Land Claims

      • Deborah Bird Rose

      Pages 83-95

   6. Ecofeminist Analysis and the Culture of Ecological Denial

      • Val Plumwood

      Pages 97-112

4. Ecofeminist Currents

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113

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   2. From The Female Eunuch to White Beech: Germaine Greer and Ecological Feminism

      • Lara Stevens

      Pages 115-133

   3. Climate Guardian Angels: Feminist Ecology and the Activist Tradition

      • Denise Varney

      Pages 135-153

   4. Thinking–Feminism–Place: Situating the 1980s Australian Women’s Peace Camps

      • Alison Bartlett

      Pages 155-173

   5. Performing Ghosts, Emotion and Sensory Environments

      • Peta Tait

      Pages 175-191

   6. You Are on Indigenous Land: Ecofeminism, Indigenous Peoples and Land Justice

      • Ambelin Kwaymullina

      Pages 193-208

   7. Feminist Ecologies in Religious Interpretation: Australian Influences

      • Anne Elvey

      Pages 209-229

   8. Australian Women in Mining: Still a Harsh Reality

      • Maryse Helbert

      Pages 231-246

   9. ‘In the Interest of All Mankind’: Women and the Environmental Protection of Antarctica

      • Emma Shortis

      Pages 247-261

5. Back Matter

   Pages 263-271

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This edited volume critically engages with ecofeminist scholarship. It tracks the ongoing dialogue between women’s issues and environmental change by republishing the work of pioneering scholars and activists in the field. Together with new essays by contemporary ecofeminist scholars, the book uncovers the dialectical relationship between environmental and feminist causes, the relational identities of feminists and ecofeminists, and the concept of ecofeminism as a rallying point for environmental feminism. The volume defines ecofeminism as a multidisciplinary project and will appeal to readers working within the field of Environmental Humanities.

• feminist ecologies
• feminism and environment
• anthropocene
• ecofeminism
• feminist activism
• gender equality

“By way of sublating the dialectic of academia and activism, of finding ways to productively hold these in suspended tension, I commend this rabble-rousing collection to anyone silently weathering reef grief, reef rage and all the dystopian dread of the climocalypse. This is a collection that will doubtless become required reading on every blockade. See you there.” (Liz Conor, Plumwoodmountain.com, November 23, 2018)

• University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

  Lara Stevens, Denise Varney

• LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia

  Peta Tait

Lara Stevens is Lecturer and Tutor in Theatre Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Peta Tait is Professor of Theatre and Drama at La Trobe University, Australia.

Denise Varney is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia.