Toward an Ecofeminist Environmental Jurisprudence: Nature, Law, and Gender
Description:
This thesis develops a legal theory reflecting the insights of feminism and environmental philosophy. I argue that human beings are not ontologically separate, but embedded in webs of relationality with natural others. My primary purposes are to 1) delineate ways in which institutions of modernity (such as law and science) have precipitated ecosocial crisis through the attempt to dialectically enforce mastery and control over nature and women; and 2) explore alternate political forms and ontolo…
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Date:
August 1999
Creator:
Mallory, Chaone