1. 1. Ecofeminism
   • Environment is a feminist issue and how?
   Meera Baindur, Environmental Philosopher National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore
2. 2. Connections Between Woman & Nature
3. 3. Causal Connections
4. 5. GOD Women Children Animals Plants Rocks Man Culture rights Nature Resources Pyramid courtesy, Working with Nature: Reciprocity or control? by Ariel Salleh in Environmental Philosophy" NewJersey: Prentice Hall) The Patriarchal Pyramid
5. 6. Conceptual Connections
6. 7. Conceptual Dichotomies :Value Dualism 1
7. 8. Conceptual Dichotomies :Value Dualism 2
8. 9. Conceptual Dichotomies :Value Dualism 3
9. 10. Conceptual Dichotomies :Value Dualism 4
10. 11. Conceptual Framework: Value Hierarchy
11. 12. Conceptual Logic of Domination
    • Valuereason is greater than Value emotion
    • Men have always been reasoning
    • Women have often been emotional
    • Value reasoning is greater than Value of emotion
    • Therefore men are above women in the order, therefore can subordinate them.
12. 13. Empirical Connections
13. 14. Displacement of peopleaffects the un-landed, and the marginal people most.
14. 16. The Call Of Ecofeminism
15. 17. Some places we have to restore balance!
    • Woman centered thinking and policy.
    • Deconstructing the hierarchies of domination.
    • Subsistence-living is not poverty.
    • Celebrate Diversity; Respect Differences.
    • Starting caring for the planet, Dont techno-fix it. Its not a clock or a spaceship, Its a living planet!
16. 18. We inherit the earth from our children. [email_address]