A Study of Feminist Perspective on Gender and Environment

Exploring the Intersection of Gender, Environment, and Feminism

Abstract

The ecofeminist and materialist categories may be used to categories the primary feministviewpoints for researching women and the environment. The ecofeminist movement contends that there isan innate link between the exploitation of nature and the oppression of women, that it is the patriarchalstructure of human society that fosters the exploitation of the Other. The materialist faction disputes thisassertion. In order to argue that structural and material disparities are the foundation of women'soppression, it draws on two theoretical perspectives feminist environmentalism and feminist politicalecology (FPE). The area of Gender, Environment, and Development (GED) applies some of these feministviewpoints to the environmental policy realm, such as ecofeminism and feminist environmentalism. Inthis essay, the feminist political ecology has emphasized how gendered differences in resource access,control, and distribution lie at the core of many environmental challenges, including social justice andenvironmental degradation. Feminist history, Feminism's many forms, feminist political ecology, and agender analysis framework.