Queering Ecological Feminism Erotophobia, Commodification, Art, and Lesbian Identity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15021711 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wendy Lynne Lee (corresponding author), Laura M Dow (Indiana University) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 1-21 |
| Publication date | 2001-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethics & the Environment (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1085-6633 • E-ISSN: 1535-5306 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/ete.2001.6.2.1 |
| OpenAlex | W1971127655 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 5 |
Utilizing examples from recent art, we critique Greta Gaard's argument that an inclusive ecofeminism must account for the role played by erotophobia in oppression. We suggest that while Gaard offers valuable insight into how fear of the erotic contributes to maintaining heteropatriarchal institutions, it fails to account for forms of oppression specific to lesbians. Moreover, Gaard's analysis unwittingly reinforces the conceptual, hence political, economic, and social invisibility of lesbians that, following Marilyn Frye, we argue is not merely consequent to compulsory heterosexuality, but constitutive of it. Lastly, we sketch a lesbian erotic whose potential for generating conceptual dissonance within heteropatriarchal value dualism contains the seeds of a creative sensibility out of which a genuinely queer ecofeminism might emerge
Aesthetics · Art · Commodification · Dualism · Ecofeminism · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Feminism · Intersectionality · Invisibility · Lesbian · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Queer · Sociology · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2015 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |