Description
Book SynopsisThe relationship between feminism and ecology has grown in importance in recent years. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the ecofeminist movement and its history, as well as an extended analysis of the main perspectives within it.
Trade Review"Mary Mellor is extraordinarily good at sorting out, with sympathy and humour, the various arguments put forward by feminist, radical and green theorists and activists. She has written a timely and exciting book which leads one to share her optimism about critical social analysis and the politics of new social movements - and the potential for social change."
Diana Leonard, Institute of Education, University of London "To offer a coherent, readable and critically engaged survey of a large body of polemical and academic work is a considerable achievement, and Feminism and Ecology will be an indispensable resource for anyone thinking about, or teaching, the relations between ecological politics, feminist theory and philosophy, and the "new social movements" ... [and] thought-provoking to anyone concerned with green social theory ... [a] valuable book." Times Literary Supplement
"This book is a timely contribution to an emergent literature." Political Studies
Table of ContentsPreface.
1. Introduction.
2. Women and the Environment.
3. Ecofeminist Thought.
4. Women, Biology and Nature in Feminist Thought.
5. Women and Nature - a Privileged Standpoint?.
6. Feminism and the Green Movement.
7. Social Ecology, Ecosocialism and Social/ist Ecofeminism.
8. Feminism and Ecology: a Material Connection.
Bibliography.
Index.
