"Ecofeminist Appropriations and Transnational Environmentalists", Noel Sturgeon
Ecofeminists who portray women as in their essence closer to nature have been rigorously criticized
Indigenous Women as the Ultimate Ecofeminists:
"Essentialism is the practice of making generalized claims about a group based on notions of an essential inherent similarity" (Sturgeon 114)
Third world women become symbols for the environmental protection by white ecofeminists, w/o regard for their own lives or choices
Ecofeminism and Critiques of Essentialist Discourse
US ecofeminism is based on Western, patriarchal society's denigration of nature and women, and its consequences
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