ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with some of ecofeminism's major challenges, for example, moving past the essentialism debate and the eurocentrism of some of its thinkers, as well as gaining recognition for the interdisciplinary configurations which it helped create. It also addresses the subdiscipline of feminist ecocriticism, which emerged directly from ecofeminist thinking while positively influencing it by granting it more academic attention, especially from European academic circles. Ecofeminism sees the subjugation of women and nature as being linked by a conceptual logic of domination common to all forms of oppression. Few standpoint theory movements have gone as far down the road as ecofeminism when it comes to recognizing the intersectionality of power relations. As with its feminist counterparts, ecofeminism has experienced a backlash at the turn of the century. This is partly due to the sterile debate around the alleged essentialism of some but also, and probably more importantly so, due to the eurocentrism of its worldview.
