This course introduces students to the intersection of feminism and the environmental movement. Together we explore why feminism grounds itself in a deep concern for the environment as well as the link between feminist theory and the current environmental crisis. We survey the background and history of the movement as well as its contemporary diversity. In addition, this course investigates the origins of the current environmental crisis in Western science, philosophy and religion and devotes considerable time to the following topics in ecofeminist thought: politics, responsible citizenship, economics, materialism, ethics, animals, vegetarianism and religion. While examining various feminist critiques of this situation, we concentrate mostly on feminist solutions to the crisis.

Compulsory:

MELLOR, M., Feminism and Ecology. New York: New York University Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0814756010.

TWINE, R. T., “Ma(r)king Essence-Ecofeminism and Embodiment,” Ethics and the Environment, vol. 6, no. 2 (Autumn, 2001). 

VANCE, L., “Ecofeminism and Wilderness,” NWSA Journal, Vol. 9, No. 3, Women, Ecology, and the Environment (Autumn, 1997).

KINGS, A. E., “Intersectionality and the Changing Face of Ecofeminism,” Ethics & the Environment 22, no. 1 (2017). 

FITZERALD, A. J., “The Emergence of the Figure of "Woman-The-Hunter:" Equality or Complicity in Oppression?” Women's Studies Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 1/2, Women and Sports (Spring - Summer, 2005).

Elected:

MERCHANT, C., “The Scientific Revolution and the Death of Nature,” Isis, vol. 97, no. 3 (September 2006).

Richard Twine, “Masculinity, Nature, Eco-Feminism,” available from www.ecofem.org/journal 

CRITTENDEN, Ch., “Ecofeminism Meets Business: A Comparison of Ecofeminist, Corporate, and Free Market Ideologies,” Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 24, no. 1 (Mar., 2000). 

RUDY, K., “Locavores, Feminism and the Question of Meat,” The Journal of American Culture Volume 35, Number 1 (March 2012).

GAARD, G., “Toward a Queer Ecofeminism,” Hypatia, vol. 12, no. 1 (Winter 1997).