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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"ecofeminist"”.
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The Decolonial Power of Shapeshifting: Subversive Ecofeminist Rhetorics
… word to songs and videos. It stems from an ecofeminist exigence and functions to build empathy which would otherwise be less available to the audience.
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Writing Nature in Hebrew Literature: An Ecofeminist Reading
… some aspect of character, plot or theme. Yet, ecofeminists show, the construction of nature put forward by the literary hegemony has an effect on the way in which we conceptualise both our relationship with the natural world, and our relationships with one another. Indeed, the oppression of the …
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Toward an Ecofeminist Environmental Jurisprudence: Nature, Law, and Gender
This thesis develops a legal theory reflecting the insights of feminism and environmental philosophy. I argue that human beings are not ontologically separate, but embedded in webs of relationality with natural others. My primary purposes are to 1) delineate ways in which institutions of modernity …
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An ecofeminist creation : how Poor Things rewrites and re-animates Frankenstein
… it makes. By examining these choices through an ecofeminist lens, it becomes clear how Gray is participating in a sustainable and radical literary practice--rewriting--by highlighting the abundance of content that art can be created from. Gray has re-animated the environmental and ethical …
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Post-environmentalism, the deep ecology/ecofeminist debate, and Surfacing : rereading environmental theory
I have taken my notion of 'Post-Environmentalism' from John Young's book of the same name which seemed to me to provide an eclectic and essentially deconstructive approach to the debate surrounding 'the environmentalist crisis'. As the term suggests, the debate is one subject to essentialist …
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Shakespeare and the Ecofeminist Killjoy: Disruptive Women and Untamed Nature in Early Modern England
… comedies and romances for the presence of ecofeminist killjoys. Drawing from Sara Ahmed’s figure of the ‘feminist killjoy’ in her texts The Promise of Happiness and The Feminist Killjoy Handbook, the term ecofeminist killjoy describes a person whose gendered relationship to the environment …
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Applying ecofeminist theory to Christian mission work in Honduras: Building theoretical bridges for real change
… traveling yearly to Honduras to look to the ecofeminist theories of Rosemary Radford Ruether and Mary Judith Ress in order to more effectively confront the social, political, and economic hurdles preventing more Hondurans from living more empowered lives. This thesis first articulates why the …
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An Ecofeminist Perspective: Ecology and Feminism in the Works of Reinig, Maron, Morgner, and Wolf
… Maron, Irmtraud Morgner, and Christa Wolf, ecofeminist themes become apparent when read from the perspective of ecofeminist theory. These authors are explicit in their condemnation of society and its course of environmental destruction that they feel will ultimately lead to the devastation …
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Precarity and Resilience: An Ecofeminist Reading of the African Child in Fiction by Contemporary Women Writers
… of the child, specifically the African child, in ecofeminist theory by focusing on recent fiction by women writers from the continent in which the child’s experience of precarity is foregrounded in relation to the slow violence perpetuated by legacies of extractivist colonialism and …
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Ecofeminist Theology in Islam: The Process and Application of Synthesizing Rosemary Radford Ruether’s Insights, Islamic Feminist Aspirations, and Ecological Concerns
… three distinct areas of scholarship, the ecofeminist theology of Rosemary Radford Ruether, Islamic feminism, and Islamic environmentalism towards the primary goal of making a case for the construction of an ecofeminist theology in Islam. Specifically, I seek to consolidate Islamic …
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Oppressed female protagonists and their survival strategies: An ecofeminist perspective in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple
… start striving and liberating themselves via ecofeminist values and attitudes from the prescribed gender roles imposed on them. For this very reason, the aim of the study is to examine the complexity of embedding natural aspects within these texts in the light of ecofeminist theoretical …
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World of Water: Betsy Damon’s Ties to Ecofeminism
… artistic practice as overtime she engages with ecofeminist thought. As a whole, this work extends contemporary scholarship on ecofeminist engaged art to include Damon’s artistic production while amplifying social and critical ecofeminism as necessary ideologies to explore when analyzing art …
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Ethical entanglements: human-animal relationships in modern and contemporary Spain
… on theories primarily from animal studies and ecofeminist philosophy. Any ecofeminist approach recognizes all forms of marginalization and systemic violence as inextricably entangled. My analysis adopts ecofeminist Josephine Donovan’s theory that practicing literary analysis through an ethic of …
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Refuge and Ecofeminism: The Possibility of a Strategic Essentialism
This thesis describes the current state of ecofeminist theory as dominated by a body of disciplinary meta-commentary; ecofeminist scholars, mired in a self-scrutiny that hinges on the issue of essentialism, have pivoted their critical attention to a defense of their field. The first part of this …
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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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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
… by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie from a postcolonial ecofeminist perspective. Postcolonialism focuses on issues pertaining to power, culture, and religion in relation to humanity, whilst ecofeminism explores the links between the environment and women, connecting women to the epistemological …
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Dwelling in Ecological Poetry: Emily Dickinson's Nature Poems and Henry David Thoreau's Walden
… demonstrate an ecopoetics that accords with an ecofeminist phenomenology, a critical praxis that resists logics of domination and recognizes the interdependency and reciprocity between individuals and their ecological communities. This study of Dickinson and Thoreau is born of a desire to …
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Dwelling in Ecological Poetry: Emily Dickinson's Nature Poems and Henry David Thoreau's Walden
… demonstrate an ecopoetics that accords with an ecofeminist phenomenology, a critical praxis that resists logics of domination and recognizes the interdependency and reciprocity between individuals and their ecological communities. This study of Dickinson and Thoreau is born of a desire to …
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The ecofeminism of Ivone Gebara
… and cooperation between Southern and Northern ecofeminists. The immediate context of oppression experienced by poor Latin American women is the ground upon which Gebara has built her critique of patriarchal and apolitical Christian theological discourses, as well as capitalist ideologies. These …
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Invisible Woman
… women are invisible within the feminist and ecofeminist movements. Using the faces and forces of oppression as presented by Iris Marion Young and Hilde Lindemann, I show how the working class experiences oppression. I also show how oppression based on class differs from that based on gender …
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