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This essay continues perspectives from the symposium on "Ecosocialist-Eco-feminist Dialogues" (2006) in an effort to correct important misunderstandings that threaten to block the integration of feminist & socialist projects. The author cites two cases of non-existent disagreement with Maria Mies & Claudia von Werlhof about basic needs, the interconnectedness of different struggles, & Marxism. The author presents 5 aspects of Marxist critique & socialist practice that have been slighted by Mies & von Werlhof. The failure of the two theorists to recognize these 5 aspects of left thought & practice perpetuates an unjustified polarization of those that share their goals. J. Harwell

ABSTRACTThis contribution offers a response to Melissa Leach's paper 'Earth Mothers and Other Ecofeminist Fables: How a Strategic Notion Rose and Fell', published in an earlier issue of Development and Change. Leach's article examined the rise and fall of the figure of 'woman as natural environmental carer' in environment and development discourses. Specifically, it appeared concerned with the role of 'the northern ecofeminist' in popularizing this figure, and the notion that women have a special relationship with the environment. This response points to the reliance on the figure of the 'northern ecofeminist' as a foil to gender and development (GAD) discourses, and situates this anxiety over the figure of 'woman as natural environmental carer' in the context of some key feminist debates of the 1990s. Conflicts between GAD scholars and ecofeminists can be understood as one manifestation of tensions over essentialism in feminism. Attending to how conflicts over essentialism have been worked through in feminism could productively inform efforts to think through the nexus of gender, environment and development.

This book is about ecofeminism and its encounter with theology, predominantly that of Christian theology in Euro-western contexts. It introduces and explores ecofeminism and the encounter. The goal is to understand the significance and implications of ecofeminism and its contribution and challenge to theology. A further goal is to assist ecofeminist theology, or theologies, to be more effective in preventing ecological ruin, assisting women''s struggles for freedom and supporting the flourishing of all life on earth. Ecofeminism represents ways of discerning associations of many kinds betw

An original exploration of how the relationship between society and 'nature' is conceptualized, focusing on theories of social exclusion and difference. A comprehensive overview of feminist and environmental theories of society-environment relations, considering the range of theoretical and political influences on such theorizing such as socialist and Marxist theory amongst others and the turn to post structuralism and postmodernism within the social sciences. Cudworth also develops her own theoretical account for the interrelations between forms of social domination and contributes to importa

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Ecological Thinking: Subversions and Transformations -- 2 Ecological Naturalism -- 3 Negotiating Empiricism -- 4 Ecological Subjectivity in the Making: "The Child as Fact and Artifact -- 5 Patterns of Autonomy, Acknowledgment, and Advocacy -- 6 Rational Imagining, Responsible Knowing -- 7 Public Knowledge, Public Trust: Toward Democratic Epistemic Practices -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.