EcofeminismPapers

A case study of Zapotec women in San José del Progreso, Oaxaca, tracing how mining reshapes land, water, and community life - and how refusal sustains relations beyond extraction.

Greta Gaard revisits ecofeminism’s contested history, distinguishing necessary critiques of gender essentialism from the wholesale dismissal of a tradition that linked gender, race, class, colonialism, species and environmental justice.

Andrea J. Nightingale examines how gender is made through forestry labor, ecological rules, and unequal authority in a community-forestry case from western Nepal.

A groundbreaking 1997 Hypatia paper that first systematically explored intersections between ecofeminism and queer theory, arguing inclusive environmental ethics must account for diversity of species, gender, and sexuality.

Bina Agarwal grounds gender and environmental politics in rural India's unequal access to land, forests, water, labor, and decision-making - rather than an assumed female affinity with nature.

This groundbreaking paper redefines the concept of objectivity, proposing 'situated knowledges' as a third way between traditional scientific objectivity and relativism. Haraway argues that all knowledge comes from specific positional perspectives, advocating for 'feminist objectivity' - a form of knowledge production that acknowledges partiality, location, and embodiment.