EcofeminismPapers

A place-based Indigenous feminist analysis showing that mining violence acts on bodies, water, land, and community relations - and that women’s refusal defends this entire web of life.

Gaard responds to anti-essentialist critiques of ecofeminism and argues for retaining its ability to connect gender, race, class, colonialism, species, and environmental justice.

Drawing on community forestry in Nepal, Nightingale shows gender not as a fixed identity but as a process produced through labor, embodiment, affect, ecological practice, and power.

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.

Agarwal critiques essentialist ecofeminist claims through Indian cases, shifting attention to land, class, caste, labor, and control over resources.

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.