On 1 May 2001, at 10:18, Weihua Chen wrote: > Dear Richard, > Do you mean that "ecofeminism" is not an independent > school among feminist various schools(for example: > Marxist Feminism, Radical Feminism, and so on)? > But I think ecofeminism must be different from > feminism, so what is its characteristic. I don't know > whether ecofeminism is just focused on ecological or > environmental problems. > best wishes, > chen > Ecofeminism does not place either feminism or ecology in the adjectival, i.e. subservient position, as would either ecological feminism or feminist ecology, addressing both aspects or components of the situation equally, and in fact viewing their concerns as pragmatically inseparable, although theoretically distinguishable. > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] �����ģ�> 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 > > > ===== > Weihua Chen > 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 >
