ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights ecofeminist interventions into the rhetoric and actions of the climate justice movement in the United States. Ecofeminism also emerged in the late 1970s as a movement and epistemological current connecting the oppression of women with the oppression of the environment. Ecofeminism’s theoretical roots trace back to the science revolution that, between 1500 and 1700, transformed conceptualizations of nature from a nurturing, sacred mother to a mechanistic and dead entity. Climate change increases the amount of time women spend gathering fuel and water, makes their work to produce the majority of the world's food unpredictable, and increases the health and other kinds of care they must perform in response to climate change-exacerbated disease and natural disasters. The chapter concludes by centering Standing Rock as an inspiring coming together of diverse peoples working for dignity, sovereignty, and a healthy planet, a mobilization that author hope all movements for justice can stand with and learn from in these crises-ridden times.
