Ecofeminism as Politics

This is an exploration of the philosophical and political challenge of ecofeminism. It shows how the ecology movement has been held back by conceptual confusion over the implications of gender difference, while much that passes in the name of feminism is actually an obstacle to ecological change.

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Ecofeminism as Politics is now a classic, being the first
work to offer a joined-up framework for green, socialist, feminist and
postcolonial thinking, showing how these have been held back by conceptual confusions
over gender. Originally published in 1997, it argues that ecofeminism reaches
beyond contemporary social movement ideologies and practices, by prefiguring a
political synthesis of four-revolutions-in-one: ecology is feminism is
socialism is postcolonial struggle. Ariel Salleh addresses discourses on class,
science, the body, culture and nature, and her innovative reading of Marx
converges the philosophy of internal relations with the organic materiality of
everyday life.