About the Book

The strengths and weaknesses of the growing ecofeminist movement are critically assessed by scholars in a variety of academic disciplines and vocations. Writers explore the real-life concerns that have motivated ecofeminism as a grassroots, women-initiated movement around the globe; the appropriateness of ecofeminism to academic and scientific research; and philosophical implications and underpinnings of the movement.

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Contents

CONTENTS

Introduction

Karen J. Warren

 

PART I

Taking Empirical Data Seriously

 

One: Taking Empirical Data Seriously:
An Ecofeminist Philosophical Perspective
Karen J. Warren

 

Two: Ecofeminism through an
Anticolonial Framework
Andy Smith

Three: Women of Color, Environmental Justice, and Ecofeminism
Dorceta E. Taylor

 

Four: Women's Knowledge as Expert Knowledge:
Indian Women and Ecodevelopment
Deane Curtin

 

Five: Epistemic Responsibility and the Inuit of
Canada's Eastern Arctic: An Ecofeminist Appraisal
Douglas J. Buege

 

Six: Women and Power
Petra Kelly

 

Seven: Learning to Live with Differences:
The Challenge of Ecofeminist Community 

Judith Plant

 

Eight: "The Earth Is the Indian's Mother,
Nhandecy"                                                              

Eliane Potiguara

(Translated by Leland Robert Guyer; edited by Karen J. Warren)

 

PART II

Interdisciplinary Perspectives

 

Nine: Leisure: Celebration and Resistance in the Ecofeminist Quilt           

Karen M. Fox

 

Ten: Ecofeminism and Work
Robert Alan Sessions

 

Eleven: Ecofeminism and Children                     

Ruthanne Kurth-Schai

 

Twelve: Ecofeminism and Meaning                   

Susan Griffin

 

Thirteen: Ecofeminist Literary Criticism            

Gretchen T. Legler

 

Fourteen: Rhetoric, Rape, and Ecowarfare in the Persian Gulf    

Adrienne Elizabeth Christiansen

 

Fifteen: The Nature of Race: Discourses of Racial Difference in Ecofeminism       

Noel Sturgeon

 

 

Sixteen: Ecofeminism in Kenya:

A Chemical Engineer's Perspective                    

Joseph R. Loer

 

Seventeen: Keeping the Soil in Good Heart: Women

Weeders, the Environment, and Ecofeminism   

Candice Bradley

 

Eighteen: Remediating Development through an
Ecofeminist Lens

Betty Wells and Danielle Wirth

 

Nineteen: Scientific Ecology and Ecological
Feminism: The Potential for Dialogue
Catherine Zabinski

 

 

PART III

Philosophical Perspectives

 

Twenty: Androcentrism and Anthropocentrism:
Parallels and Politics                                               

Val Plumwood

 

Twenty -one: Revaluing Nature                        

Lori Gruen

 

Twenty-two: Self and Community in
Environmental Ethics                                             

Wendy Donner

 

Twenty-three: Kant and Ecofeminism           

Holyn Wilson

 

Twenty-four: Women-Animals-Machines:
A Grammar for a Wittgensteinian Ecofeminism
Wendy Lee-Lampshire

 

Twenty-five: Radical Nonduality
Ecofeminist Philosophy
Charlene Spretnak

 

 

 

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About the Author / Editor

Karen J. Warren, Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Macalester College is editor of Ecological Feminist Philosophies and coeditor (with Duane L. Cady) of Bringing Peace Home.

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