Is Ecofeminism Due for a Comeback?
Feminism or death? That’s the choice the French writer Françoise d’Eaubonne, who coined the term ecofeminism, offered readers in her 1974 groundbreaking treatise, Le Féminisme ou la Mort. Gendered violence and the degradation of the planet are both “the price of phallocracy,” she declared. The solution, d’Eaubonne wrote, was to overthrow not simply patriarchal power but…Continue Reading