Ecofeminism and Globalization Exploring Culture, Context, and Religion

by Eaton, Heather; Lorentzen, Lois Ann; Gaard, Greta; Gebara, Ivone; Gnanadason, Aruna; Ho, Wan-Li; Lorentzen, Lois Ann; Maruyama, Masatsugu; Mellor, Mary; Nyamweru, Celia; Ress, Mary Judith; Ruether, Rosemary Radford; Sturgeon, Noël

• ISBN13: 9780742526983
• ISBN10: 0742526984
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-03
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Discusses ecofeminism in the context of the social, political and ecological consequences of globalization. The book includes case studies, essays, theoretical works, and articles on ecofeminist movements from many of the world's regions including Taiwan, Mexico, Kenya, Chile, India, Brazil, Canada, England and the United States.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Rosemary Radford Ruether
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	1	(8)
Heather Eaton and Lois Ann Lorentzen
I Economic Globalization, the Environment, and Gender	9	(30)
1 Gender and the Environment	11	(12)
Mary Mellor
2 Can Ecofeminism Withstand Corporate Globalization?	23	(16)
Heather Eaton
II Challenges to Ecofeminism: Concrete Cases	39	(50)
3 Women and Sacred Groves in Coastal Kenya: A Contribution to the Ecofeminist Debate	41	(16)
Celia Nyamweru
4 Indigenous Feet: Ecofeminism, Globalization, and the Case of Chiapas	57	(16)
Lois Ann Lorentzen
5 Traditions of Prudence Lost: A Tragic World of Broken Relationships	73	(16)
Aruna Gnanadason
III Regional and Transnational Expressions of Ecofeminism and Responses to Globalization	89	(144)
6 Ecofeminist Natures and Transnational Environmental Politics	91	(32)
Noël Sturgeon
7 Environmental Protection as Religious Action: The Case of Taiwanese Buddhist Women	123	(24)
Wan-Li Ho
8 The Con-spirando Women's Collective: Globalization from Below?	147	(16)
Mary Judith Ress
9 Ecofeminism: An Ethics of Life	163	(14)
Ivone Gebara
10 Deconstructive Ecofeminism: A Japanese Critical Interpretation	177	(26)
Masatsugu Maruyama
11 Ecofeminists in the Greens	203	(30)
Greta Gaard
Selected Bibliography	233	(6)
Index	239	(12)
Contributors	251