Talk:Eco-feminism

and practice random and planned acts of carlessnesshood...

FOR A MORE PEACEFUL AND HEALTHIER FUTURE: Whether we drive, drive large or small or not at all, some things we can be doing while our government is out to lunch on environmental and energy values and issues:

Some market directed resource responses to the Bush, Inc., environmental protection roadblocks... go direct... drive around the roadblocks...

Tell Auto Makers To Make Cleaner-Air Vehicles http://www.autobuyology.org/tellcarmakerstocleantheair.pdf

Sierra Club's Ford Motors Clean The Air Campaign http://whistler.sierraclub.org/action/?alid=169

National Resource Defense Council's Break the Oil Chain Campaign http://www.nrdcaction.org/breakthechain/index.asp?step=2&item=1505Thank

Global Exchange & Rainforest Action Network's Ford Motors Action http://www.JUMPSTARTFORD.com http://www.RAN.org/news/newsitem.php?id=686&area=home

Bluewater Network's Ford Motors Campaign http://www.bluewaternetwork.org

Union of Concerned Scientists Cleaner Vehicles Website http://www.ucsusa.org/index.cfm

Car Deal Literacy For a Car Deal Clueless Auto Driven Society http://www.autobuyology.org/thankyouforteaching.pdf

Jump Start Ford: Tell Auto Makers to Make Cleaner Air Vehicles http://www.autobuyology.org/jsford2.pdf

For a saner, greener, & more peaceful future...

Rand Knox Carlessnesshood 101 For Healthier Air, Planet & People http://www.autobuyology.org/

PS: Three existing technologies, if used extensively, would as much or more than double the gas mileage, and save consumers as much or more than three times what they would cost to install in new cars, light trucks and SUVs... 1. Continuously variable valves 2. Continuously variable transmissions 3. Integrated starter generators

These existing technologies do not require fuel adjustments, and may be adaptable to hybids and hydrogen fuel cell technologies down the road, if ever hydrogen fuel cell technologies proves to be economical and ecological.

no ecofeminists quoted on ecofeminist page
I recently read the Wikipedia entry on ecofeminism. I found that it generally agrees with my sense of ecofeminism, but I was a bit taken aback to see a critic of ecofeminism (Janet Biehl) quoted at length when no actual ecofeminists were quoted at all!

I also found the discussion of where ecofeminism "comes from" to be somewhat ahistorical and recommend Noël Sturgeon's _Ecofeminist Natures: Race, Gender, Feminist Theory and Political Action_ (Routledge, 1997)  to fill in the gaps.

Karla Armbruster English Dept. Webster University armbruka@webster.edu

I completely agree Karla. I'm afraid for my sins, I took the direct action approach and changed it. I found it offensive and it was clearly written by someone trying to strategically misrepresent ecofeminism in a negative light. Just like Biehl's poor scholarship it completely ignored Sturgeon, and Plumwood, and Cuomo and so on. Encyclopedia's are poltics by other means.

Richard Twine Lancaster University

=Ecofeminism and the Oppression of Animals and Women=

This summary of ecofeminism does not fully take into account the work that has been done by theorists such as Carol Adams, who demonstrate a specific deep link between the oppression of animals and the oppression of women. This definition of ecofeminism therefore does not do justice to the ecofeminist movement and all aspects of its work and ideology. Animals and Women: Feminist Theoretical Explorations edited by Carol Adams/Josephine Donovan and Ecofeminism: Women, Animals, and Nature editied by Greta Gaard are two among many useful and important publications concerning this issue. I've taken the liberty to add this more prominently to the definition and will hopefully add some useful links at a later date.

-Carolyn Boston, MA, USA