ECOFEMINIST DISCOURSE AND ECO ART

This article focuses on the concepts of woman-nature-art, 18.-19. Century has progressed through a structure that extends from women nature artists to today's eco art. First of all, female protagonists in the stories of the writer Andrea Barrett and their historical counterparts, such as Elizabeth Blackwell, were included. Examples of the works of female artists who criticized the male predominance in the art environment of the 1970s were examined. At the same time, it was mentioned that awareness of the environment increased in the 1970s with the influence of scientists, activists and artists. The concept of Ecofeminism, which was first used by Françoise d'Eaubonne in 1974, was defined, and the women and ecology connections of writers such as Vandana Shiva were mentioned. In the last two sections, the works of the women artists selected were examined with the descriptive method. Agnes Varda is discussed in her wheat field project, which she cultivates in the commercial center of New York, as she is the first artist to engage in agriculture as an artistic act and production. Katie Holten has made boulevard trees visible using photographs, drawings, maps, interviews and software. Finally, there is Neri Oxman, who uses nature itself as a design in her projects, which she calls "Material Ecology" combines science, engineering, art and design. <p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0856/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

Identités de Pandore : à la rencontre du paysage comme image de soi

"Considering the postmodern theoretical context of Maxine Sheets- Johnstone’s corporeal turn and la pensée paysagère (“landscaping thought”) in Augustin Berque, the myth of Pandora’s box is defined here as the self-image of landscape through the ecofeminism of Françoise d’Eaubonne (1974) and the identification of women to nature by Carolyn Merchant (1980). This perspective describes how ecofeminism, landscape philosophy and the imaginary of the body introduce the mutable nature of literary myths and, more precisely, the cosmogonic Pandora’s identities assimilated to the archetypal image of the landscape-woman: from Eve-Pandora as femme fatale, the first woman, to Gaia-Pandora, bearer of hope."

Perfumar la rabia. El ecofeminismo de Françoise d’Eaubonne en la era del barbijo

Françoise d’Eaubonne (1920-2005) proposed the term «ecofeminism», between the ‘60s and ‘70s, to explain the necessary convergence between feminism and ecologist as an alternatives to the world crisis. The drifts of ecofeminism is a fascinating path as well as a window to understand the tensions of feminist and ecologist; even more so since the current crisis of reproduction, where feminist struggles in defense of the bodies-territories detain the advanced destroyer of patriarchal and colonial capitalism. However, in these debates, the figure of Françoise d’Eaubonne and the vehemence of her proposals usually remain as a mere encyclopedic reference. The feminist movement, the urgencies of the ecological crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic, awaken our interest in her work and her figure.

An Ecofeminist Reading of Han Kang’s The Vegetarian

Ecofeminism depicts the movements and philosophies that establish a close relationship between women and nature. It is also an academic movement that sees a critical connection between the domination of nature and the exploitation of women. The term ‘Ecofeminism’ was coined by the French writer Francoise d’Eaubonne. This term intersects the two critical perspectives- ecology and feminism. Ecofeminist theory asserts that a feminist perspective of ecology does not place women in the dominant position. This theory can be used to explore the connection between women and nature in culture, religion, literature and thus address and bring out the parallels between the oppressions of nature and the oppressions of women. Using gender as an important factor, ecofeminism examines the conditions that cause and perpetuates the subordination of both women and nature. This analysis includes seeing men as the curators of culture and women as the curators of nature, and also how men dominate women and humans dominate nature. This paper titled, ‘An Ecofeminist Reading of Han Kang’s The Vegetarian’ discusses the term ecofeminism and how this theory can be analysed and applied in this book written by Han Kang, a South Korean writer who won the Man Booker International prize for fiction in 2016 for this particular book. The book is about a home-maker whose decision to stop eating meat after a deadly nightmare about human cruelty leads to various problems in her personal life. This paper mainly tries to bring out how women and nature are oppressed by the patriarchy and how both are showing resistance toward this dominance. It investigates how man colonizes nature and as well as women. There are various other books that can be analysed under this feminist theory but this book in a way different as the main protagonist of this book sees vegetarianism as a way of not causing any harm on anything, but asserting her identity and freedom in patriarchal society. Thus this paper brings of the various ecofeminist aspects that can be analysed in this book through the various contexts related to the protagonist.

O ecofeminismo na educación ambiental en España

O artigo explora o papel dos movementos ecofeministas no desenvolvemento da Educación Ambiental, os seus antecedentes, a súa definición e ás mulleres españolas que representan este movemento.Nos anos 70, coincidindo na época na que por primeira vez foi acuñado o termo Educación Ambiental, nace o movemento ecofeminista da man da francesa Françoise d’Eaubonne. Indagando na información das voces ecofeministas españolas, preténdese analizar as orixes e consecuencias do ecofeminismo na sociedade e a súa repercusión na historia da EA española.Existen moitas mulleres que de forma activa levaron a cabo unha ardua loita pola protección do ambiente e da natureza e pola manifestación da importancia que tiña o medio natural no ámbito educativo. Un claro exemplo foron as irmáns Blanca e Clotilde Catalán ou Leonor Serrano Pablo e Gloria Giner de los Ríos. Na actualidade destacan as ecofeministas Alicia Puleo e Yayo Herrero.

Animales, teorías feministas posmodernas y prácticas artísticas.

Este artículo pretende mostrar cómo algunas teorías feministas posmodernas como el ecofeminismo y el posthumanismo, de autoras como Françoise d'Eaubonne, Alicia Puleo, Donna Haraway o Rosi Baridotti han contribuido a la crítica contra las prácticas androcéntricas basadas en el dominio sistémico de devastación y explotación del otro/a/os, perpetuando la jerarquía y autoridad del hombre. Frente a ello estas autoras han propuesto un nuevo modelo de relación orgánica y de convivencia entre cultura y naturaleza, capaz de superar los modelos binarios, inspirado en el respeto a la diversidad de sexos y especies.Estos principios se hayan, así mismo, en las prácticas artísticas de algunas autoras como Bonnie Ora Sherk, Olga Diego o María Llopis. Prácticas que transitan por la performance, la instalación o el Movimiento Auténtico.

Ecofeminism and Global Environmental Politics

Ecofeminism can be described as both an ecological philosophy and a social movement that draws on environmental studies, critiques of modernity and science, and feminist critical analyses and activism to explicate connections between women and nature, and the implications of these relationships for environmental politics. Feminist writer Françoise d’Eaubonne is widely credited to be the founder of ecofeminism in the early 1970s. Ecofeminists embrace a wide range of views concerning the causal role of Western dualistic thinking, patriarchal structures of power, and capitalism in ecological degradation, and the oppression of women and other subjugated peoples. Collectively, they find value in extending feminist analyses to the simultaneous interrogation of the domination of both nature and women. The history of ecofeminism may be divided into four decade-long periods. Ecofeminism emerged in the early 1970s, coincident with a significant upturn in the contemporary women’s and environmental movements. In the 1980s, ecofeminism entered the academy as ecofeminist activists and scholars focused their attention on the exploitation of natural resources and women, particularly in the developing world. They criticized government and cultural institutions that constrained women’s reproductive and productive roles in society, and argued that environmental protection ultimately depends on increasing women’s socioeconomic and political power. In the current postfeminist and postenvironmentalist world, ecofeminists are less concerned with theoretical labels than with effective women’s activism to achieve ecological sustainability.