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Why is ecofeminism still needed to address the environmental emergencies and challenges of our times? Ecofeminism has a chequered history in terms of its popularity and its perceived value in conceptualizing the relationship between gender and nature as well as feeding forms of activism that aim to confront the environmental challenges of the moment. This book provides a much-needed comprehensive overview of the relevance and value of using eco-feminist theories. It gives a broad coverage of traditional and emerging eco-feminist theories and explores, across a range of chapters, their various contributions and uniquely spans various strands of ecofeminist thinking. The origins of influential eco-feminist theories are discussed including key themes and some of its leading figures (contributors include Erika Cudworth, Greta Gaard, Trish Glazebrook and Niamh Moore), and outlines its influence on how scholars might come to a more generative understanding of the natural environment. The book examines eco-feminism's potential contribution for advancing current discussions and research on the relationships between the humans and more than humans that share our world. This timely volume makes a distinctive scholarly contribution and is a valuable resources for students and academics in the fields of environmentalism, political ecology, sustainability and nature resource management.

The neoliberal environmental governance of river conservation, coupled with the organizational modernization imposed and sustained by the European Union's water directives, engenders Other Spaces of feminist ecological alignment. The riparian landscapes of urban cities are manifestations of political and ideological rationalities operating under the constraints of capitalist markets, and are saturated by the contradictions of neoliberal environmental science. Neoliberal rationalities configur

Offers an ecofeminist consideration of knowledge, nature, & the social that endorses a critical realist understanding based on the social constructedness of languages & disciplines. Like dialectics, this approach depends on an assumption of overdetermination & flows constantly between the abstract & concrete. Such knowledge is identified as tacit when recognition of internally linked forces is not verbally articulated. Lay knowledge, often mistaken for tacit knowledge, is occasionally deemed to stay on the concrete level. However, it is here argued from an ecofeminist perspective that political interests limit the further development of lay knowledge into discourse. K. Coddon

This essay aims to establish that feminism & ecologism, when linked have a potential that exceeds the sum of its parts. Feminism & ecologism as bodies of thought meet most frequently in the field of ecofeminism. This is not the most exciting or profitable terrain on which they can address each other. Rather, feminism & ecologism can meet on two coexisting levels. The first concerns matters of content -- specifically their shared concern with certain issues & concepts. The second is their respective natures: both have emancipatory & utopian potential. 34 References. Adapted from the source document.