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Western ecofeminists’ perspective on the connections between the domination, oppression, and abuse of women and the abuse of the natural environment would be an overgeneralization of the challenges facing women and the natural environment across cultures and spaces. The position in this essay is that the challenges faced by women derive mostly from cultural factors whereas the contemporary degradation of the environment stems mainly from economic considerations. This essay, rather than associating the domination of African women with the pillaging of the natural environment, contends that African women themselves are frontline environmental activists who see the linkage between sustaining the natural environment and the successful fulfilment of the biological and cultural role of nurturing. By stressing the importance of achieving environmental sustainability, the African perspective of a symbiotic relationship between man and the environment emerges. This essay thus concludes that as the contemporary world assumes concern for gender equality and responsibility for environmental sustainability, ingenious solutions to these challenges from Africa need to be recognized, adopted, and adapted to diversify global approaches to the challenges of gender equity and environmental balance.
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Toril Moi, “Men Against Patriarchy,” in Gender and Theory: Dialogues in Feminist Criticism, ed. Linda Kauffman (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989): 183.
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Maria Mies & Vandana Shiva, Ecofeminism (Halifax, Nova Scotia: Fernwood, 1993): 14.
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Susan Dobscha, “Women and the Environment: Applying Ecofeminism to Environmentally-Related Consumption,” Advances in Consumer Research 20 (1993): 36–40. See also Karen J. Warren, “The Power and the Promise of Ecological Feminism,” Environmental Ethics 12.2 (Summer 1990): 125.
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Warren, “The Power and the Promise of Ecological Feminism,” 128.
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Vandana Shiva, Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development (London: Zed, 1989); Cathleen McGuire & Colleen McGuire, “Ecofeminist Visions.”
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Myra Marx Ferree, “Family and Job for Working-Class Women: Gender and Class Systems Seen from Below,” in Families and Work, ed. Naomi Gerstel & Harriet Engel Gross (Philadelphia PA: Temple UP, 1987): 289–301; Marjorie L. DeVault, “Doing Housework: Feeding and Family Life,” in Families and Work, ed. Gerstel & Gross, 178–191; Cathleen McGuire & Colleen McGuire, “Ecofeminist Visions.”
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Ynestra King, “Healing the Wounds: Feminism, Ecology, and the Nature/Culture Dualism,” in Reweaving the World: The Emergence of Ecofeminism, ed. Irene Diamond & Gloria Femen Orenstein (San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1990): 106–121. King, 118.
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Michael Fleshman, Report on the Crisis in Nigeria (New York: The Africa Fund, 1999), http://www.prairienet.org/acas/alerts/nigeria/nigeria1.html (20 August 2002).
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Ifeanyi Izuka, Travails of the Black Gold (Lago: Golden Isbels, 2002): 228.
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Sokari Ekine, Blood and Oil: Testimonies of Violence from Women of the Niger Delta (London: Centre for Democracy and Development, 2000).
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Tanure Ojaide, The Activist (Lagos: Farafina, 2006): 101. Further page references are in the main text.
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Western ecofeminists’ perspective on the connections between the domination, oppression, and abuse of women and the abuse of the natural environment would be an overgeneralization of the challenges facing women and the natural environment across cultures and spaces. The position in this essay is that the challenges faced by women derive mostly from cultural factors whereas the contemporary degradation of the environment stems mainly from economic considerations. This essay, rather than associating the domination of African women with the pillaging of the natural environment, contends that African women themselves are frontline environmental activists who see the linkage between sustaining the natural environment and the successful fulfilment of the biological and cultural role of nurturing. By stressing the importance of achieving environmental sustainability, the African perspective of a symbiotic relationship between man and the environment emerges. This essay thus concludes that as the contemporary world assumes concern for gender equality and responsibility for environmental sustainability, ingenious solutions to these challenges from Africa need to be recognized, adopted, and adapted to diversify global approaches to the challenges of gender equity and environmental balance.
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