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Ecofeminist Theory and Grassroots Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Stephanie Lahar
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Abstract

This essay proposes several guiding parameters for ecofeminism's development as a moral theory. I argue that these provide necessary directives and contexts for ecofeminist analyses and social/ecological projects. In the past these have been very diverse and occasionally contradictory. Most important to the core of ecofeminism's vitality are close links between theory and political activism. I show how these originated in ecofeminism's history and advocate a continued participator? and activist focus in the future.

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Research Article
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Hypatia , Volume 6 , Issue 1: Special Issue: Ecological Feminism , Spring 1991 , pp. 28 - 45
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Copyright © 1991 by Hypatia, Inc.

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