A Revisionary Reading of Ecofeminist Theory

Abstract

Abstract

The present article questions the idea of the equation of nature with the woman and its very necessity to base a movement for bringing about a radical transformation in the present socioeconomic system. ‘Woman=Nature’ is a cultural construct which was generated by the pervasive patriarchal biases of our civilization. This patriarchal civilization has ignored women’s efficiency in other fields apart from bringing up their children and degraded thoseas uncivilized, submissive, sexual objects. It is this civilization that has equated nature(wilderness/uncivilized) with woman to devalue both.Indeed ecofeminist theory is incoherent, amorphous and logically unsound. This theory must needs be replaced by something so logical as to base a whole movement for a radical reshaping of the contemporary society. In fact, there is no necessity of perpetuating the term ecofeminism which may be replaced by the term ecohumanitarianism as it questions any kind of exploitation, be it environmental exploitation or class oppression or gender oppression. Key words: Ecology, Exploitation, Feminism, Nature, Woman