Ecofeminism as Politics Nature, Marx and the Postmodern

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Ecofeminism as Politics is now a classic, being the first work to offer a joined-up framework for green, socialist, feminist and postcolonial thinking, showing how these have been held back by conceptual confusions over gender. Originally published in 1997, it argues that ecofeminism reaches beyond contemporary social movement ideologies and practices, by prefiguring a political synthesis of four-revolutions-in-one: ecology is feminism is socialism is postcolonial struggle. Ariel Salleh addresses discourses on class, science, the body, culture and nature, and her innovative reading of Marx converges the philosophy of internal relations with the organic materiality of everyday life. This new edition features forewords by Indian ecofeminist Vandana Shiva and US philosopher John Clark, a new introduction, and a recent conversation between Salleh and younger scholar activists. About the author Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Forewords Preface to the first edition Introduction to the twentieth anniversary edition Part I: Women and Ecopolitics 1. Ecology reframes history 2. Ecofeminist actions Part II: An Embodied Materialism 3. Body logic: 1/0 culture 4. Man/Woman=Nature 5. For and against Marx 6. The deepest contradiction Part III: Making Postcolonial Sense 7. When feminism fails 8. Terra nullius 9. A barefoot epistemology 10. As energy/labour flows 11. Agents of complexity 12. Beyond virtual movements Interview: embodied materialism in action Notes Index