Definition of ecofeminism in English:
ecofeminism
noun ˌiːkəʊˈfɛmɪnɪz(ə)mˌēkō-
mass nounA philosophical and political theory and movement which combines ecological concerns with feminist ones, regarding both as resulting from male domination of society.
Example sentencesExamples
- Still, this means that any college that studies/explores gender as a legitimate cultural ‘object’ of study - which most EEO institutions do - as it can legitimately study ecofeminism, all schools of it.
- Can ecocriticism be regrounded in ecofeminism or postcolonial studies to meet racial and ethnic inequalities?
- Political ecofeminism uses methods and approaches based on the idea that institutions like a state, which represent a convergence of different interests sharing power provide to a certain extent for the needs of the community.
- One of the most interesting papers used ecofeminism and vegetarianism to consider the treatment of animals in two novels from the United States and Mexico, both of which represented indigenous lifestyles.
- Both standpoint feminism and ecofeminism lead us to conclude the opposite.
Derivatives
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Similarly, ecofeminists such as Salleh argue that complex time concepts are necessary to understanding ecological processes.
Example sentencesExamples
- Another notion common among ecofeminists is that thousands of years ago our species lived in benevolent societies that worshiped female deities, venerated female qualities, and were closely in tune with the natural world.
- By claiming to speak for all women, socialist, radical, liberal and ecofeminists effect, in Haraway's view, an ‘unintended erasure of polyvocal, unassimilable, radical difference’.
- I think this particular ecofeminist was saying that we should all be in tune with the sacred cycles of life.
- Economic ecofeminists demand that products from unsustainable conventional fruit farms that use chemical fertilisers and pesticides should be taxed for polluting the environment.