ABSTRACT
In the emerging and overlapping academic and activist literature in the 1980s and early 1990s, it was common to describe eco/feminism by stressing the diversity of the movement. More specifically, perhaps eco/feminists often pointed to the very impossibility of characterising the movement in any simple way, precisely because of its pluralism. Introducing eco/feminism by providing a list of the activisms that were invoked to constitute eco/feminism’s brief history was widespread in eco/feminist writings of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Constructing lists and genealogies offers a different knowledge practice to some of the other possibilities available. Against the deadening repetition of the end of feminism, against the typologies of eco/feminism which sought to purify theories of essentialism and activism, and against the progress narratives of certain feminist histories, others were briefly, excitedly, repeating the names of places around the world.
