EcofeminismBooks

Alexis Pauline Gumbs learns Black feminist survival from marine mammals, linking breath, sound, collective protection, and ecological crisis.

Ursula K. Le Guin retells technological origins through the container rather than the weapon and imagines fiction as a bag holding people, relations, and ordinary continuance against linear progress and heroic conquest.

María Puig de la Bellacasa extends care into more-than-human worlds, insisting that care can sustain worlds while also burdening and excluding.

Donna Haraway proposes making kin and the Chthulucene, asking readers to stay with multispecies responsibilities rather than flee into rescue stories.

Vandana Shiva extends democracy to land, seeds, water, and community, showing how corporate globalization turns the commons of life into property.

Vandana Shiva connects industrial agriculture, fossil fuel dependence, and climate crisis, centering small farms, seed diversity, and food sovereignty.

Anna Tsing follows matsutake supply chains to study survival, cooperation, and non-linear ecological relations in capitalist ruins.

Combining Indigenous wisdom with scientific knowledge to explore the relationship between humans and nature, proposing ecofeminist practices based on reciprocity and gratitude.

Alison Kafer links disability, queer, and feminist theory to challenge the ableist idea of a normal future and to imagine crip futures grounded in coalition, care, and justice.

Vandana Shiva links land, water, forest, seed, and food wars, arguing for an earth-centered political economy.

Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva place patriarchal capitalism, colonial development, women’s unpaid labor, and ecological destruction in one political economy, proposing a life-centered subsistence perspective.

Val Plumwood dissects the masterful dualisms of Western philosophy, showing how human/nature, reason/body, and man/woman turn dependency into a warrant for control.

Almost any Octavia E. Butler novel is feminist required reading: her Afrofuturistic science fiction published between 1976 and 2005 offers visionary explorations of new worlds and eternal ethical dilemmas. We recommend starting with 'Parable of the Sower,' the first novel in Butler's post-apocalyptic Earthseed duology.

This early collection records ecofeminism emerging between ecology movements, feminism, and women’s spirituality, including tensions later revised by intersectional critique.

This foundational work of ecofeminism reveals how the development paradigm threatens survival itself through violence against nature and women. Through the experiences and perspectives of rural Indian women, Shiva demonstrates how patriarchal development models simultaneously destroy ecosystems and marginalize women, arguing for women's central role as biodiversity custodians in ecological regeneration.

A groundbreaking work of ecofeminist scholarship that examines how the Scientific Revolution transformed Western culture's understanding of nature from a living, nurturing organism to a dead, mechanical object to be exploited. Merchant reveals the intimate connection between the domination of women and the domination of nature.