EcofeminismBooks

Le Guin recasts technology and fiction through the carrier bag, challenging hero-centered stories of progress and making care, relations, and collective survival narratively visible.

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

A feminist reading of María Puig de la Bellacasa’s account of care as maintenance, affect and political obligation - from knowledge-making to permaculture and living soil.

Donna J. Haraway’s feminist guide to multispecies life, reproductive freedom, colonial histories, care, and making kin on a damaged earth.

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 Lowenhaupt Tsing follows matsutake ecology and trade to show how war, migration, and capital shape precarious livelihoods - and how life persists through damaged landscapes.

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

Alison Kafer's Feminist, Queer, Crip asks who gets included in feminist and queer futures, using disability, reproductive politics, environmental justice, and access to challenge ableist ideas of a 'better life.'

Vandana Shiva links land, water, climate, forests, food and seed struggles to corporate power, ecological debt and the gendered labor that sustains life.

Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva link patriarchal capitalism, colonial development, unpaid labor, and ecological harm, proposing subsistence beyond endless growth.

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.

Irene Diamond and Gloria Feman Orenstein’s 1990 anthology maps ecofeminism through spiritual, theoretical, womanist, environmental, development, and artistic debates - without resolving their differences.

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.