ABSTRACT
Feminist ecological economics analysis also generates important and timely insights about how economies might be structured differently to prioritize equity, ecological and political sustainability, and interspecies or ecosystemic well-being. This chapter’s brief overview of feminist ecological economics is organized according to five central aspects of provisioning which are the starting point for a non-mainstream feminist economics: the centrality of unpaid and caring labor; human and environmental well-being; human agency; ethical judgments, especially regarding valuation; and the relationships among gender and other identities, power, and the environment. Feminist economists from around the world who have studied gender and development emphasize the close and inequitable relationship among gender roles, property access, life possibilities, and political agency, which penalize and subjugate women in comparison with men, and the many ways that ecological crises and climate change differentially threaten women.
