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Ecofeminism is the theory and practice of examining and challenging the political, social, historical, epistemological, and conceptual links between the domination of women and the exploitation of nature. It has evolved into a movement that connects all the “-isms” of domination, e.g., racism, sexism, and classism, with the exploitation, degradation, and destruction of natural entities, habitats, and ecosystems.
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Ecofeminism has conceptual beginnings in the work of Simone de Beauvoir who pointed out in 1952 in The Second Sex that in the logic of patriarchy, both women and nature appear as other (de Beauvoir, 2010). In the 1970s, it flourished in both France and North America. In 1974 in France, Luce Irigaray diagnosed philosophically a “phallic logic of the Same” that precludes...
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Glazebrook, T. (2014). Ecofeminism. In: Michalos, A.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_807
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