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Also called ecological feminism, ecofeminism can be defined as a multiple set of interconnected theories and practices that embraces animal, environmental, and feminist studies and remains united by the very fundamental categories of its approaches: women, animals, and environment. The relationship between these categories is basically established through a chain of domination, exploitation, and oppression that affects both. Thereby, when conceptualizing ecofeminism, various ecofeminists highlight the connection between women, animals, and nature due to their vulnerability to the direct effects of the same patriarchal oppression system. According to Cuomo (2002), “ecofeminism stresses the depth to which human realities are embedded in ecological realities, and the fact that we are all composed of physical and conceptual connections and relationships” (Cuomo 2002).
Beyond the relation of women, animals, and nature, derived from their condition of subjugation to the same...
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Rosendo, D., Kuhnen, T.A. (2019). Ecofeminism. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Gender Equality. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70060-1_41-1
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