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Toward a Queer Ecofeminism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Greta Gaard
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Abstract

Although many ecofeminists acknowledge heterosexism as a problem, a systematic exploration of the potential intersections of ecofeminist and queer theories has yet to be made. By interrogating social constructions of the “natural,” the various uses of Christianity as a logic of domination, and the rhetoric of colonialism, this essay finds those theoretical intersections and argues for the importance of developing a queer ecofeminism.

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Hypatia , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , Winter 1997 , pp. 114 - 137
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Copyright © 1997 by Hypatia, Inc.

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