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Mary Mellor is a professor at Northumbria University, she is chair and founder to the university’s Sustainable Cities Researchable Institute. Her work is based on and involved with socialist work on economics, feminist, and green movements. She has published distinguished, novels on her perspective of today’s world and the involvement of struggle among patriarchy. Her noted novels, “Feminism and Ecology” 1997 and “Breaking the Boundaries” 1992. In both novels she focuses on the situation of how planetary exploitation is obscured and being destroyed in the patriarchy of man and how female perspective is more connected with nature." Her novels greatly expand on how the role of women have become embedded by means of how humans can be compared to  nature and how socialist privileged white men has already become the overall, exploiter’s of the natural and unnatural world. Her work is based primarily based on feminist views and the connection to nature.

Feminism and Ecology
Mary Mellor, tracing Ecofeminist activism from the Love Canal demonstrations to socialist ecofeminism, provides a comprehensive introduction to the ecofeminist movement and its history. Mellor examines the connections between feminism and the Green movement, outlining the contributions of major participants while contextualizing them within a wider range of debates. Looking past the shortsighted assertion that women and men stand in equal relation to the natural order. "Overall aim of this book is to explore the history and development of the various strands of ecofeminism and their relationship to elements of feminism(s) and ecology" (Mellor p. 10). To this end, she has accomplished a thorough analysis. The book is heavily theory oriented, and as such is most suited for academicians and others interested in learning the intricacies of the relationship between ecofeminism, feminism, and ecology. Ecofeminism is often dismissed out of hand as a naively existentialist approach which holds that women are linked to nature by virtue of their biology. With this book Mary Mellor attempts to challenge this predominant and negative stereotype, both by illustrating the variety of ecofeminist approaches and by developing her own materialist ecofeminist position.

Breaking the Boundaries
Ultimately, the Boundaries that Mellor seeks to break are those that can be recognized at the global level, dividing race, culture, ethnicity and sex. Boundaries also exist between the feminist, green and socialist movements, which she illustrates both theoretically and from personal experience: as a feminist and a socialist, Mellor's original inspiration for this book arose out of her disillusionment with a male-oriented socialism "preoccupied with industrial and economic systems." She begins by asserting that capitalism, sexism, racism, industrialism, and militarism are male centered domination that threaten our world. Citing historians, ecofeminists, and anthropologists, Mellor chronicles the emergence of patriarchy and male domination. She gains her point by contrasting the Traditional male view of history with the more recent female -centered theories such as ecofeminism. One of Mellor's examples from “Breaking the Boundaries” illustrates the skewed priorities of a world run by men is the commitment of resources to military expenditure, which has meant that "nuclear missiles can go from Europe to Moscow in minutes, while a woman in Africa must walk several hours a day to fetch water."