by Francoise d'Eaubonne - £20.00 Verso Books (2022)
paperback
ISBN 13: 9781839764400 | ISBN 10: 1839764406
The incendiary French feminist work that defined ecofeminism—now available for the first time in English.
Originally published in French in 1974, radical feminist Françoise d’Eaubonne surveyed women’s status around the globe and argued that the stakes of feminist struggles were not about equality but about life and death—for humans and the planet. In this wide-ranging manifesto, d’Eaubonne first proposed a politics of ecofeminism, the idea that the patriarchal system’s claim over women’s bodies and the natural world destroys both, and that feminism and environmentalism must bring about a new “mutation”—an overthrow of not just male power but the system of power itself. As d’Eaubonne prophesied, “The planet placed in the feminine will flourish for all.”
Never before published in English, and translated here by French feminist scholar Ruth Hottell, this edition includes an introduction from scholars of ecology and feminism situating d’Eaubonne’s work within current feminist theory, environmental justice organising, and anticolonial feminism.
(Price & availability last checked: March 2022)
In booklists: Women and Environmental Issues/Activism, Feminism,
In categories: Feminism & Women, Environment & Animal Rights, Politics & Philosophy,
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