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Article: Ecofeminism
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Ecofeminism
The term
ecofeminism
was first used by French radical feminist Fran
ç
oise d'Eaubonne (b. 1920) in 1974 to synthesize two movements previously thought of as separate: ecology and feminism. D'Eaubonne saw clear interconnections between the domination of women and that of nature, and she hoped, by making these interconnections explicit, to rescue the planet from the destructive effects of "the male system" and restore it for the benefit of humanity's future.
Ecofeminism offers a range of theoretical positions in which the prefix
eco
signifies the whole household of life. These positions include stringent critiques of reductionist ecological science because of its ...