Dear Chen, Some writers such as Chris Cuomo and Karen Warren use the term ecological feminism in prefernce to ecofeminism. As far as I can tell they do this because they want to avoid the essentialist overtones of ecofeminism. A further reason may be to stake out a particularly 'philosophical' branch of ecofeminism. I don't personally agree with either reason. Ecofeminism after all is not inherently essentialist (see Plumwood 1993) and there are dangers in pinning ecofeminism to one particular discipline, especially one as remote as academic philosophy. Ecofeminism, in my opinion, is interdisciplinary in theory and practice. best wishes, Richard Twine www.ecofem.org Dear all, I am a new member and also a Chinese student. To avoid any misunderstanding for different language and cultural background, I want to know other memebers' viewpoints in the difference between ecofeminism and ecological feminism. Chen Weihua Chen, postgraduate Dept of Philosophy Nanjing University Nanjing 210093 China E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________ _ Do You Yahoo!? ��¼����Ż�����! http://mail.yahoo.com.cn �����Ż����ֲ������Ҹ��Ծ�ʩչ��http://cn.clubs.yahoo.com
