Approaches in Environmentalism and Feminism

Abstract

There is a global crisis. It manifests itself in war, in poverty and social injustices, in rape, in violence against children, and in the assault on nature. There are those who interpret all these problems as unrelated and temporary, and there are those who consider these problems, not as separate, but as the result of one single crisis of worldview, or world/self-consciousness. Environmentalists and feminists are two groups which have emerged in reaction to the crises of our time. While their initial concerns may have been quite separate, today the two focuses are beginning to come together as the interconnection of global problems is revealed.