From The Female Eunuch to White Beech: Germaine Greer and Ecological Feminism

Stevens, Lara

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“…For Stevens (2018), ecofeminism is seen to arise at an intersection of two major, twentieth-century, political factions: (i) concern over the continuing struggle for women's rights and (ii) alarm at the ecological unsustainability of the industrial exploitation of nature. An Extinction Rebellion scenario is suggested by a confrontation of conservationist concerns for natural resources competing against the rights of global corporate actors and posing an ethical and environmental challenge to survival.…”

Section: Theory: Ecofeminism and Truthmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Central to the debate, as a number of organizational study scholars have pointed out, corporations are anthropogenic actors that persistently contribute to exceeding planetary boundaries (Steffen et al., 2015). Yet, countless corporations disregard any “intrusion of Gaia” (Stengers, 2017, p. 381) that might bring about a collapse of the social systems (Wright & Nyberg, 2015) on which they depend. Rather than responding to the ecological crisis entailed by industrial exploitation, many corporations prefer the convenience of an account by which it is condoned and/or legitimized (Bevan, 2008).…”

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An ecofeminist position in critical practice: Challenging corporate truth in the Anthropocene

Barthold

Bevan²,

Corvellec

2022

Gender Work & Organization

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Drawing on selected discourses of non-essentialist ecofeminism, this article proposes and substantiates an ecofeminist position. This distinct position is shown to bring with it a capacity to challenge widely uncontested, corporate-produced truths regarding the benefits and the legitimacy of certain commercial activities. Three historical cases inform the discussion: the fights led by Rachel Carson against dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, by Erin Brockovich against hexavalent chromium, and by Vandana Shiva against genetically modified organisms. Distinguishing characteristics of this emblematically individual and critical activist practice include that it is aimed at fighting environmental degradations; it originates from outrage; it is sustained by dedication and courage; and it combines pedagogy, politics, and ethics. We show how this practice may be understood by reference to acknowledged ecofeminist tenets and in particular with the advocating of a holistic, respectful association with all forms of life on Earth.

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Section: Theory: Ecofeminism and Truthmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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An ecofeminist position in critical practice: Challenging corporate truth in the Anthropocene

Barthold

Bevan²,

Corvellec

2022

Gender Work & Organization

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“…This process of abstraction shows, in turn, that she has mobilised the resources of life writing in service of an ecological feminism. 89 The book abounds in withering descriptions of the 'blokiness' of botany, with explicit references to the masculine mastery of the settlers, as well as the underlying mechanisms of control that are evident in botanical classification. In White Beech, Greer draws on landscape memoir's distributed self to explore an entangled ecological ethics.…”

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Australian landscape memoir as conservationist vehicle: Winton, Tredinnick, Greer

Huddart

Huggan

2020

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In this essay, we propose to study three recent Australian landscape memoirs – Tim Winton’s Island Home (2015), Mark Tredinnick’s The Blue Plateau (2009) and Germaine Greer’s White Beech (2013) – all of which demonstrate the capacity of landscapes to act as perceptual conduits for the fundamental tension between world and self. Our main contention is that landscape memoir acts as a pre-eminent vehicle for this tension, which is captured across different times and spaces and among multiple, intricately co-constituted life-worlds. Landscape memoir, in this and other ways, functions as both a multi-sensory phenomenological instrument for the recording of physical and emotional engagement with landscape and a distinct, episodically organised mode of life writing that seeks to understand the fractured nature of individual selfhood in the context of a more-than-human world. The essay also looks at the capacity of memoirs of this kind to operate as vehicles for conservationist thinking and action. In each of our three main cases, landscape mediates between an insecure self and a world or worlds that are portrayed as being threatened, although this is not enough in itself to establish a basis for the three works as ‘conservationist’ texts. However, all three can be seen as individual enquiries into different kinds of conservation that use the techniques and characteristics of landscape memoir to reflect on the material possibilities of personal and collective recovery (Winton) and ecological restoration (Greer); or, over and against these, to mark the elegiac registration of irretrievable loss (Tredinnick).

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A Matter of Method: Ecofeminist Writing as a Method of Inquiry

Mickelburgh

2024

The Ecofeminist Storyteller

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From The Female Eunuch to White Beech: Germaine Greer and Ecological Feminism

Cited by 4 publications

References 7 publications

An ecofeminist position in critical practice: Challenging corporate truth in the Anthropocene

An ecofeminist position in critical practice: Challenging corporate truth in the Anthropocene

Australian landscape memoir as conservationist vehicle: Winton, Tredinnick, Greer

A Matter of Method: Ecofeminist Writing as a Method of Inquiry

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