Famous Figures
What is Essentialism?
A 2005 study found that governments made up of more of this group were more likely to ratify international environmental treaties than other nations.
What are women?
An estimated 2/3rds of the illiterate population are women, due to institutional oppression and a cultural discouragement from education, leading to this major producer to climate change.
What are increased fertility rates?
This branch of ecofeminist thought links gender justice, environmental care, and animal rights.
What is Vegetarian Ecofeminism
Term for a gender based problem plaguing the farming industry that results in an estimated 30% crop yield loss and causes an estimated 150 million people to go hungry
A 2021 study of environmental activists found that of respondents under 25, this proportion were made up of women.
What is 2/3rds
This branch of ecofeminism relates material conditions and class issues with ecological issues and environmental exploitation.
This French author coined the term "Ecofeminism" in 1974.
Who is Francoise D'Eaubonne?
Roughly this share of the top ministerial positions in environmental sectors worldwide are women.
12% 20%
34% 40%
What is 12 percent?
This branch of Ecofeminism contains the belief that women have a special closeness with nature, and that women have a unique symbolic, spiritual, and cultural connection to nature.
What is Spiritual/Cultural Ecofeminism?
This German Politician co founded the German Green party, the first party to receive national prominence with a predominantly environmental platform.
Who is Petra Kelly?
This American Social Ecologist criticized the movement for oversimplifying complex hierarchies and systems of dominance and control.
Who is Janet Biehl?