The Good-natured Feminist: Ecofeminism and the Quest for DemocracyU of Minnesota Press, 1999 - 245 pàgines Annotation Heroic mothers defending home and hearth against a nature deformed by multinationalist corporate practice: this may be a compelling story, but it is not necessarily the source of valid feminist or ecological critique. What's missing is the democratic element, an insistence on bringing to public debate all the relations of gender and nature that such a view takes for granted. This book aims to situate a commitment to theory and politics -- that is, to democratic practice -- at the center of ecofeminism and, thus, to move toward an ecofeminism that is truly both feminist and ecological. The Good-Natured Feminist inaugurates a sustained conversation between ecofeminism and recent writings in feminist postmodernism and radical democracy. Starting with the assumption that ecofeminism is a body of democratic theory, the book tells how the movement originated in debates about "nature" in North American radical feminisms, how it then became entangled with identity politics, and how it now seeks to include nature in democratic conversation and, especially, to politicize relations between gender and nature in both theoretical and activist milieus. |
Continguts
A Genealogy of Ecofeminism | 3 |
Identity Another Genealogy | 28 |
From Difference to Differences A Proliferation of Ecofeminisms | 48 |
From Natural Identity to Radical Democracy | 75 |
The Quest for a Radical Democratic Politics | 95 |
Cyborgs and Queers Ecofeminism and the Politics of Coalition | 97 |
Ecofeminism Universality and Particularity | 125 |
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