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Showing 1 to 20 of 70 for “"Ecofeminism"”.
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The ecofeminism of Ivone Gebara
… Starting from the events that gave rise to ecofeminism in the Global North, this thesis analyses the under-researched development of ecofeminism in Latin America. Gebara's work highlights forms of emerging imperialist and colonialist behaviours as it is manifested in postcolonial contexts, …
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The Value of Ecofeminism for Environmental Regulation
Environmental degradation happens in every country, at every level and scale, in many forms, throughout the world. It affects the Earth, its ecosystems, as well as people, animals, and plants. While everyone is affected, the poor are the most vulnerable to the ravages of environmental degradation. …
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World of Water: Betsy Damon’s Ties to Ecofeminism
… production while amplifying social and critical ecofeminism as necessary ideologies to explore when analyzing art through an ecofeminist lens. Beginning with her first environmentally focused work in the United States the organization of the following chapters reveals Damon’s deepened …
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Refuge and Ecofeminism: The Possibility of a Strategic Essentialism
… wherein essentialism attracts suspicion and ecofeminism has acquired its discrediting, I argue that ecofeminists should challenge the terms of the debate as tenuous, rather than help uphold them. The second part of this thesis reads Terry Tempest Williams's <italic>Refuge: An Unnatural …
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Ecofeminism as invitational rhetoric: Envisioning the shift in Western consciousness
Ecofeminists believe the Western patriarchal worldview perpetuates a power-over ideology that contributes to the destruction of the environment. Ecofeminists advocate that understanding the web of life is crucial for attaining a paradigm shift to a mindset that respects all entities. This study …
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Ecofeminism and geography: the case of Vandana Shiva and Chipko
… Following those critiques, this study evaluates ecofeminism as a possible alternative to a "man-land" formulation. Ecofeminism is presented and analyzed as a school of thought that also studies human-environment interactions. Vandan Shiva's discourse and treatment of Chipko provide the central …
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Transforming food politics: community to community's intersectional ecofeminism and food sovereignty
… of the environment. Their work is grounded in ecofeminism, and ultimately strives for food sovereignty. Semi-structured interviews with members of Community to Community were conducted to explore perceptions of their guiding frameworks. Additionally, content analysis and supplemental …
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Ecofeminism and the Gothic Archives of American Folk Horror : Shadows of the Anthropos
This study explores American folk horror as a mode of inquiry into the literary, cultural, filmic, ecological, and political histories of the United States. By using ecofeminist theory to read American folk horror against its roots in the frontier gothic, a genre concerned with the realities and …
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The Gastonia Novels and Ecofeminism: Rereading the Works of Fielding Burke Grace Lumpkin and Myra Page.
… <em>Gathering Storm</em> through the lens of ecofeminism, an interdisciplinary theory that contributes the necessary insight into the link between the abuse of power on personal, political, and economic levels that underlies the human oppression and environmental exploitation experienced by …
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Protecting Systems of Nature and Gender: Ecofeminism in Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal Summer and Ruth Ozeki's All Over Creation
<p>Ecofeminism has permeated the disciplines of politics, philosophy, science, and literature – all of which are embedded in the fiction of Barbara Kingsolver’s Prodigal Summer and Ruth Ozeki’s All Over Creation. In this thesis, I consider the authors’ use of scientific evidence to engage readers …
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Exploitation of Land and Labor in Appalachia: The Manipulation of Men in Ann Pancake's Strange as this Weather Has Been
<p>Ecofeminism is traditionally interested in the relationship between patriarchal domination of women and nature. Ann Pancake’s novel <em>Strange As this Weather Has Been </em>critiques the way the coal mining industry has affected the Appalachian people and land. The novel reflects natural …
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A postcolonial ecofeminist comparative analysis of war fiction: The case of Arundhati Roy's The God of small and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a yello sun
… and religion in relation to humanity, whilst ecofeminism explores the links between the environment and women, connecting women to the epistemological understanding of nature. The research aimed at exploring the plight of women and the environment in a wartime postcolonial era through the …
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Post-environmentalism, the deep ecology/ecofeminist debate, and Surfacing : rereading environmental theory
… involved, in particular Deep-Ecology and Ecofeminism, without privileging one over another. However, I also point out ways in which this mapping project is subject to the same specular logic. In so far as Surfacing is a postmodernist text which constantly relativizes the discourses of, in …
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Taoism and Contemporary Environmental Literature
… mainstream environmentalists, deep ecology, and ecofeminism.
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Vegetal Being: Dreamwork, Ritual, and Performance in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian
… ecological context. To engage with this form of ecofeminism, I center an autotheoretical methodology with voices from ritual theory and performance theory in order to examine how Yeong-hye, the titular vegetarian of Han Kang’s novel, operates as a narrative-level metaphor for the desire for …
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Precarity and Resilience: An Ecofeminist Reading of the African Child in Fiction by Contemporary Women Writers
… a reconfiguration of the scope and foci of ecofeminism, particularly in relation to African, environmental realities and crises as they pertain to children. The research questions that inform this study are as follows: (1) Without claiming a direct correlation between fictional portrayal and …
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Toward an Ecofeminist Environmental Jurisprudence: Nature, Law, and Gender
… the promotion of ecological ideas, and how ecofeminism can contribute to transformative projects of environmental philosophy and feminist law.
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Analysis of Ecofascist Tendencies on Reddit
… on climate change, such as decolonialism, ecofeminism and anti-imperialism, to analyze how ecofascist tendencies are expressed in a small-scale sample of a Reddit community that discusses climate change. The study finds that while the analyzed community is not overtly eco-fascist, it does …
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The Decolonial Power of Shapeshifting: Subversive Ecofeminist Rhetorics
… animal. This thesis utilizes a framework of ecofeminism and rhetorical empathy in order to understand this kind of shapeshifting. Three primary rhetors comprise the basis of this investigation: Terry Tempest Williams, a Mormon conservationist, Gloria Anzaldúa, a queer feminist Chicana …
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Indigenous Climatic Perspectives: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Environmental Discourse Analysis
… are combined with other perspectives, such as ecofeminism, sociological analysis, urban studies and agro-ecology to present a coherent, climate-conscious discourse that is accessible and functional in terms of helping reduce the impact of climate destruction.</p>
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