As many people know, feminism is the advocacy of equal rights between the sexes. But fewer people know about ecofeminism, which is not only the advocation of equal rights, but is the inclusion of the advocation of ecological issues in the advocation of equality. Ecofeminism sees that the oppression of women and the oppression of nature are inherently linked and therefore the advocation of the rights of one means that the rights of the other must be advocated for as well.
Karen Warren, a philosophy professor and author of multiple books and articles about ecological philosophy, claims in her article The Power and the Promise of Ecological Feminism that feminism and ecological issues are linked because their oppression comes from three conceptual …show more content…
This is what Warren argues when she talks of looking at and coming in contact with nature using the loving eye versus the arrogant eye. The arrogant eye interacts with nature as if to dominate and conquer it, to use a Kantian concept, the arrogant eyes uses nature solely as a means to an end. On the other hand, the loving eye interacts with nature to understand it; the loving eye recognizes that humans and nature are different, and acknowledges the relationship between the two (596). Because the same oppressive framework leads to both the oppression of nature and women, then the humans must not only use the loving eye in regards to nature, but they must use the loving eye to look at, acknowledge, appreciate, and understand the differences between men and …show more content…
And so movements fighting against different forms of oppression must work together to dismantle the web as a whole, not with an oceanic view that says one oppression is the same as another, but with a view that acknowledges the differences in various oppressions, as well as across various cultures (231). Just as feminism must be intersectional to include all those oppressed by the patriarchy, oppressed groups must be intersectional to fight for and recognize the difference in the oppression of other groups. It is only with this inclusive fight against all oppressions that the web can be
Karen Warren, a philosophy professor and author of multiple books and articles about ecological philosophy, claims in her article The Power and the Promise of Ecological Feminism that feminism and ecological issues are linked because their oppression comes from three conceptual …show more content…
This is what Warren argues when she talks of looking at and coming in contact with nature using the loving eye versus the arrogant eye. The arrogant eye interacts with nature as if to dominate and conquer it, to use a Kantian concept, the arrogant eyes uses nature solely as a means to an end. On the other hand, the loving eye interacts with nature to understand it; the loving eye recognizes that humans and nature are different, and acknowledges the relationship between the two (596). Because the same oppressive framework leads to both the oppression of nature and women, then the humans must not only use the loving eye in regards to nature, but they must use the loving eye to look at, acknowledge, appreciate, and understand the differences between men and …show more content…
And so movements fighting against different forms of oppression must work together to dismantle the web as a whole, not with an oceanic view that says one oppression is the same as another, but with a view that acknowledges the differences in various oppressions, as well as across various cultures (231). Just as feminism must be intersectional to include all those oppressed by the patriarchy, oppressed groups must be intersectional to fight for and recognize the difference in the oppression of other groups. It is only with this inclusive fight against all oppressions that the web can be