Essentializing Women
The idea of women’s oppression being synonymous with the domination of the environment is exemplified by eco-feminism’s stance, which sees a need for a “more feminine morality, one stressing cooperation and nurturant concern for all (human and other) life" (Warren 1980: 129). This victimization of women renders gender invisible in political and ecological relations. Feminist political ecology attempts to include gender as a “key element” in political ecology analysis (Hovorka 2006: 209).
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“... not only do ... women suffer ... indignities in daily life, but the literature of the world proclaims their inferiority and divinely decreed subjection in all history, sacred and profane, in science, philosophy, poetry, and song.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)