Ecofeminism in theory and praxis

Capitalism, Nature, Socialism

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 96-102

  Goldstein, Jesse ^a  

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CAPITALISM; ECOFEMINISM; MARXISM; SOCIAL THEORY; SOCIALISM; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 33751183727     PISSN: 10455752     EISSN: 15483290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10455750601004582     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (27)

1. Phoebe Godfrey, "Diane Wilson vs. Union Carbide: Ecofeminism and the Elitist Charge of 'Essentialism,'" Capitalism Nature Socialism, Vol. 16, No. 4, 2005, pp. 37-55.
2. Godfrey's article is a good introduction to this debate, and many of the sources she sites are worth further review. For other historical materialist approaches to this critique see John Sanbonmatsu, The Postmodern Prince: Critical Theory, Left Strategy, and the Making of a New Political Subject (New York: Monthly Review, 2004)
3. and Ellen Meiksins Wood and John Bellamy Foster (eds.), In Defense of History: Marxism and the Postmodern Agenda (New York: Monthly Review, 1997).
4. Mary Mellor discusses variations within ecofeminist theory in Feminism and Ecology (Cambridge: Polity, 1997).
5. Godfrey, op. cit., p. 40.
6. Maria Mies, Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale (London: Zed Books, 1986)
7. Vandana Shiva, Staying Alive (London: Zed Books, 1989)
8. Mary Mellor, Breaking the Boundaries (London: Women's Press, 1992)
9. Ariel Salleh, Ecofeminism as Politics (London: Zed Books, 1997).
10. Joel Kovel, The Enemy of Nature (London: Zed Books, 2002)
11. Mary Mellor, "Myths and Realities: A Reply to Cecile Jackson," New Left Review, 217, 1996, pp. 132-137.
12. David Camfield provides a good overview of these claims in "Beyond Adding on Gender and Class: Revisiting Feminism and Marxism," Studies in Political Economy, 68, 2002, pp. 37-54.
13. Jorge Riechman, quoted in Michael Löwy, "What is Ecosocialism?" Capitalism Nature Socialism, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2005, p. 21.
14. Salleh, op. cit., pp. 12-13.
15. Mies, op. cit., pp. 44-49.
16. Ibid., p. 47.
17. See for instance, Wally Seccombe, A Millennium of Family Change (New York: Verso, 1992)
18. M. Ferber and J. Nelson (eds.), Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993)
19. or Mary Mellor, "Women, Nature and the Social Construction of Economic Man," Ecological Economics, 20, 1997, pp. 129-140.
20. Leah Vosko succinctly contextualizes this debate with an intellectual history of feminist political economy. See "The Pasts (and Futures) of Feminist Political Economy in Canada: Reviving the Debate," Studies in Political Economy, 68, 2002, pp. 55-83.
21. Michael Lebowitz, Beyond Capital (New York: Palgrave, 2003).
22. Salleh, op. cit., pp. 170-180.
23. Theodor Adorno, Negative Dialectics, trans. E. Ashton (New York: Continuum, 1973). My understanding of Adorno is primarily indebted to Frederic Jameson's classic Late Marxism (New York: Verso, 1990) and to my undergraduate professor Neil Lazarus, whose "I ? ADORNO" bumper sticker I will never forget.
24. Adorno, op. cit., p. 141
25. also quoted in Jameson, op. cit., p. 17.
26. Godfrey, op. cit., pp. 43-45.
27. Löwy, op. cit., p. 18.