usnr198028 3..19 - Ecogender Locating Gender in Environmental Social Science.pdf

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• ecofeminism suffers from a tendency to become more an ideological construct than an academic perspective

• cofeminism has sometimes suffered from a tendency to present itself as an ideological construct rather than a social scientific perspective

• ome early ecofeminist writers celebrated the identification of women with nature as an ontological reality

• hiva’s

• eminine principle

• Sturgeon

• Karen Warren

• Merchant (1

• pre-16th-century societies in the West

• the period of enlightenment that followed

• The imagery of nature became presented as wild and uncontrollable, something that needed to be ‘‘tamed’’ and ‘‘controlled’’ by scientific progress. This, in turn, contrib- uted to a mechanistic worldview and created a disjuncture in the nature–society connection.

• Plumwood

• discursive and nonessentialist ecofeminism

• ecogender studies

• Our categories are imperfect. All categories are. But the rejection of categorization is all too often used as an easy way to ward off what is in fact the most rejuvenating of social and scien- tific processes: critique