Definition of "ecofeminism" [ecofeminism]

• A sociopolitical movement combining feminism and environmentalism. (noun)

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• "After a winter of discontent, the snapping point came while Ms. Venkatesan was lecturing on "ecofeminism," which holds, in part, that scientific advancements benefit the patriarchy but leave women out."
• "In similar multidisciplinary vein, surveys the broad field of "ecofeminism", whose sub-currents range from spiritualist to materialist and redistributive approaches."
• "That Baillie does not endorse the affinity between women and nature assumed in the approaches Bowerbank studies as well as in the ecofeminism of our own time is consistent with the rejection of gender essentialism stated in her Introductory Discourse and demonstrated in her plays."