>Hi, I have followed the list for some time now. I would like to solicit >some help on an ecofeminist literary critique I am writing on >Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. I would be interested in any concrete >definitions list subscribers have for the new term ecofeminism. Do you >agree that ecofeminists focus upon the parallel domination of women and >the environment? If so, why? Conversely, if not why not? I personally >believe that this definition lends itself to essentialism; women are >'naturally' closer to nature, etc. Isn't this what the movement should >attempt to avoid? What do you think? I'd love to hear some responses to >this! Thanks! Hi there! Currently, I am writing my thesis on Women's Participation in Social Forestry Programmes in Bangladesh. I have already written a chapter on how rural women are related to environment. while writing that chapter I have come across literature on 'women, nature and environment. I think we could argue that ecofeminism conceptualizes the link between gender and environment in terms of ideological/essentialistic and materialconnections. Also ecofeminist analyses are of importance in identifying the difference in women's relationship in developed and developing countries. For examplein Bangladeshwomen as the de facto managers of the household are having difficulties coping with the deforestation. In rural Bangladesh women's relationship to natural resources should be understood as a struggle to provide for family sustenance. Women's responsibility, for family and subsistence is important, as often being the primary providers in female headed households. Their ability to fulfill this responsibility is significantly constrained by the limited and declining natural resources and means at their disposal -a constraint that stems not only from their class position but also from gender.Thus we could argue that in the developing countries an intensifying struggle for survival highlights the material basis for this link of women to environment and sets the background for an alternative formulation to ecofeminism. While essentialistic perspective claim the connection between the oppression of womenn and nature ideolologically, the materialistic or ecosocialist perspective emphasizes that women's relationship is not only ideologicl but material as well. To broadenmaterial analysis you could look into Agarwal who perceives the link between women and environment as structuredby a given gender and class, organization of production, reproduction and distribution. Well I can go on and on ... but I have to stop ...... 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