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 (such as law and science) have precipitated ecosocial crisis through the attempt to dialectically enforce mastery and control over nature and women; and 2) explore alternate political forms and ontologies which challenge the classical liberalist view of the (human) individual as a radically isolated, discrete, autonomous being. My overarching theme is that law functions as a narrative that can both hinder and enhance the promotion of ecological ideas, and how ecofeminism can contribute to transformative projects of environmental philosophy and feminist law.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

1999

Author dc:creator

• Mallory, Chaone

Contributors dc:contributor

• Oelschlaeger, Max
• Callicott, J. Baird
• Hargrove, Eugene C., 1944-

• Ecofeminism -- Political aspects.
• Environmental law.
• ecosocial crisis
• alternate political forms

Statement dc:rights

• Public
• Copyright
• Mallory, Chaone
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 45054402
untcat: b2247722
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