The Good-Natured Feminist: Ecofeminism and the Quest for Democracy

Abstract

Heroic mothers defending home and hearth against a deformed by multinationalist corporate practice: this may be a compelling story, but it is not necessarily the source of valid feminist or ecological critique. What's missing is the democratic element, an insistence on bringing to public debate all the relations of gender and that such a view takes for granted. This book aims to situate a commitment to theory and politics -- that is, to democratic practice -- at the center of ecofeminism and, thus, to move toward an ecofeminism that is truly both feminist and ecological.The Good-Natured Feminist inaugurates a sustained conversation between ecofeminism and recent writings in feminist postmodernism and radical democracy. Starting with the assumption that ecofeminism is a body of democratic theory, the book tells how the movement originated in debates about nature in North American radical feminisms, how it then became entangled with identity politics, and how it now seeks to include in democratic conversation and, especially, to politicize relations between gender and in both theoretical and activist milieus.

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