The politics of women and nature

Affinity, contingency or material relation

Bibliographic Data

ID6292883
AuthorsMary Mellor (Northumbria University, corresponding author)
Year1996
Volume1
Issue2
Pages147-164
Publication date1996-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Political Ideologies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1356-9317 • E-ISSN: 1469-9613
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13569319608420734
OpenAlexW2033374323
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited18

Ecofeminism asserts that there is a relationship between the subordination and oppression of women and the exploitation and degradation of the natural world. Ecofeminists who draw on radical/cultural feminism tend to see this relationship as a near essentialist affinity between women and nature. Those who draw on social constructivist models of feminism see it as a historical and socially contingent relationship. This paper argues that the division between these two views can be overcome by seeing the relationship between women and the natural world as a material one and that ecofeminism provides the basis of a new radical social theory as well as a political movement

Contingency · Ecofeminism · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Essentialism · Feminism · Geography · Ideology · Natural (archaeology · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Subordination (linguistics · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics

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