exploring culture, context, and religion
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Eaton, Heather > (ed.)
- Creator
- Lorentzen, Lois Ann > (ed.)
- Creator
- Ruether, Rosemary Radford > (forew.)
- Creator
- [et al.]
- Contributor
- Gaard, Greta
- Publish Year
- 2003
- Shelfmark
- B4320 - B
- Thesaurus
- ecofeminisme, globalisering, cultuurverschillen, religie, milieu, inheemse volkeren, boeddhisme, Kenia, Mexico, Taiwan, Japan, bundel
- Description
- Essays in which different views on the relation ecofeminism and globalisation are given. The authors write within a theoretical or a practical context, a first-world or a third-world context or they have Christian or Buddhist roots. The books contains three sections: (1) economic globalization, the environment and gender, (2) challenges to ecofeminism: concrete cases and (3) regional and transnational expressions of ecofeminism and the responses to globalization. Contributions: Ecofeminism and the challenges of globalization / by Rosemary Radford Ruether: Gender and the environment / by Mary Mellor: Can ecofeminism withstand corporate globalization? / by Heather Eaton: Women and sacred groves in Coastal Kenya : a contribution to the ecofeminist debate / by Celia Nyamweru: Indigenous feet : ecofeminism, globalization and the land of Chiapas / by Lois Ann Lorentzen: Traditions of prudence lost :a tragic world of broken relationships / by Aruna Gnanadason: ecofeminist natures and transnational environmental politics / by Noël Sturgeon: Environmental protection as a religious action : the case of Taiwanese Buddhist women / by Wan-Li Ho: The Con-spirando Women's Collective : globalization from below? / by Mary Judith Ress: Ecofeminism: an ethics of life / by Ivone Gebara: Deconstructive ecofeminism : a Japanese critical interpretation / by Masatsugu Maruyama: Ecofeminists in the greens / by Greta Gaard.