ABSTRACT
Ecofeminism derives from the feminist and environmental movements of the 1970s, in the context of women’s protests against environmental degradation. Thus, from the outset, ecofeminism was “about connectedness and wholeness of theory and practice” (Mies and Shiva 1993: 14). It reflected a realization among some feminists that, in the absence of a fundamental reconceptualization of the relationship between the human and natural worlds, their aim of equality with men could be achieved only at the expense of the natural world.
