Ecofeminism and Globalization: Exploring Culture, Context, and Religion

by Heather Eaton (Editor), Lois Ann Lorentzen

Discusses ecofeminism in the context of the social, political and ecological consequences of globalization. The book includes case studies, essays, theoretical works, and articles on ecofeminist movements from many of the world's regions including Taiwan, Mexico, Kenya, Chile, India, Brazil, Canada, England and the United States.

Genres: Feminism, Nonfiction

268 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2003

Reviews

[Reema · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting but disjointed collection of essays. A laudable (and crucial) attempt to include the voices/experiences of Third World women/activists in the environmental justice/globalization discussion. Especially intrigued by essays from those who've worked in India and with indigenous communities, where I believe people are very directly impacted by environmental destruction and globalization's confrontation with local lifestyles. But I wish there had been a more cohesion in the collection overall, rather than just attempting to be a collage of representative voices. I didn't leave the book feeling as if I understood, as a First World feminist with roots in the Third World, how to best engage or where the depicted situations were heading or whether "the movement" even had a cohesive future. Perhaps there is a more thorough and visionary anthology of these discussions out there somewhere . . . I badly want to read something in that vein, so I get a sense of what's going on and where I stand within that movement rather than having to cobble the news together myself or picking up a book that cobbles a fraction of it slightly incomprehensibly.