The Good-Natured Feminist: Ecofeminism and the Quest for DemocracyU of Minnesota Press, 1999 - 244 Seiten Heroic mothers defending home and hearth against a nature deformed by multinationalist corporate practice: this may be a compelling story, but it is not necessarily the source of valid feminist or ecological critique. What's missing is the democratic element, an insistence on bringing to public debate all the relations of gender and nature that such a view takes for granted. This book aims to situate a commitment to theory and politics -- that is, to democratic practice -- at the center of ecofeminism and, thus, to move toward an ecofeminism that is truly both feminist and ecological. The Good-Natured Feminist inaugurates a sustained conversation between ecofeminism and recent writings in feminist postmodernism and radical democracy. Starting with the assumption that ecofeminism is a body of democratic theory, the book tells how the movement originated in debates about "nature" in North American radical feminisms, how it then became entangled with identity politics, and how it now seeks to include nature in democratic conversation and, especially, to politicize relations between gender and nature in both theoretical and activist milieus. |
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The Good-natured Feminist: Ecofeminism and the Quest for Democracy Catriona Sandilands Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1999 |
The Good-natured Feminist: Ecofeminism and the Quest for Democracy Catriona Sandilands Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1999 |
The Good-natured Feminist: Ecofeminism and the Quest for Democracy Catriona Sandilands,Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1999 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
action actors affinity agenda analysis animal rights animals appear Arendt argue Ariel Salleh articulation Biehl biological capitalist category women challenge chapter Charlene Spretnak claims coalition common connection construction contemporary context created critique cultural feminism Cyborgs and Queers deep ecology democratic politics desire Difference to Differences discourse diversity domination Donna Haraway dualism Earth ecofeminism ecofeminist ecological embodiment environment environmental epistemology ethical experience feminist Genealogy of Ecofeminism global Greta Gaard Haraway Ibid idea identity politics Identity to Radical interests Janet Biehl language limits logic narrative Natural Identity notion oppression particular patriarchal Plumwood poli politicization possibility potential practices problem problematic produced question Radical Democracy Real realm recognition relations to nature represent representation reproduction revolutionary Shiva's Slavoj Žižek social movements socialist space speak specific speech standpoint struggles subject position suggests Symbolic tion ture universal Val Plumwood Vandana Shiva voice women and nature workers writes