Ecofeminism As Politics : Nature, Marx and the Postmodern

This book explores the philosophical and political challenge of ecofeminism. It shows how the ecology movement has been held back by conceptual confusion over the implications of gender difference, while much that passes in the name of feminism is actually an obstacle to ecological change and global democracy. The author argues that ecofeminism reaches beyond contemporary social movements being a political synthesis of four revolutions in one: ecology is feminism is socialism is post-colonial struggle. Informed by a critical postmodern reading of the Marxist tradition, Salleh's ecofeminism integrates discourses on science, the body, culture, nature, political economy. The book opens with a short history of the ecofeminism. Part two establishes the basis for its epistemological challenge while the third part consists of ecofeminist deconstructions of deep ecology, social ecology, eco-socialism and postmodern feminism. In the final section, Salleh suggests that a powerful way forward can be found in commonalities between ecofeminist and indigenous struggles.

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title: Ecofeminism As Politics : Nature, Marx and the Postmodern
purchase date: 09-10-2005
publisher: Zed Books
published: 15-12-1997
price: $27.50
pages: 208
last lookup time: 150597184
genre: History & Theory Feminist Theory Conservation
fullTitle: Ecofeminism As Politics : Nature, Marx and the Postmodern
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created: 150597184
country: us
author: Ariel Salleh
aspect: Paperback
asin: 1856494004