Socijalna perspektiva ekofeminizma
Social perspective of ecofeminism

Author(s): Ivanka Buzov
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Human Ecology, Political Ecology, Environmental interactions, Social Norms / Social Control
Published by: Durieux
Keywords: dialectic naturalism; domination; ecofeminism; ecology; ethics; nature; social ecology; social ecofeminism; woman;
Summary/Abstract: Thanks to the feminist movement, women’s civic activism within the environmental movement, and the development of the theoretical discourse of feminism, polyphony developed in relation to contemporary environmental problems, known as ecofeminism or environmental feminism. The ecofeminist ethics is promoted here, based on partnership in its nature, liberated from the dualism of Western intellectual thought and gender bias on woman and nature. The social ecofeminism puts the thesis on the connection between woman and nature in the context of socially constructed patriarchal society, oppression and domination over woman, reinforcing the feminist critique of the patriarchal society, social dominations and hierarchies. It also accepts the basic principle of social ecology according to which domination naturally comes out of man’s domination over man, thus being the primary goal in society. Social ecofeminism connects the domination of woman and nature with race and class domination, and supports a radical opposition to the existing social institutions founded in this domination system. The problem of human inequality and affirmation of social justice is now being regenerated through social drifts of ecofeminism that connects the vision of gender, class, race and liberation of all those who do not fit the common social normality norms with affirmation of degraded and inferior space of in human nature.

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