Female And Natural Concepts In Early Textures Of Ecofeminism

Ecofeminism, coming into place in the western in 1970s, is cultural trends of thoughts actively adjusting to social revolution demand against the backdropwhich the feminism has gained her foothold and environmental protection has enteredinto fight track along with the former actively throw herself into environmentalprotection undertaking. In this passage, the author, from the female gender perspective,combining theories with practices, make a systematic and deep study on ecologicalcrisis facing by human beings, centering on the close connection between female andthe nature in order to find the relation between omniscient understating towards femaleand the nature, and call for establishment of new relationship between people andpeople, people and the nature with definitely opposite exploitation and dictatorshipimposed by the phallocentrism and dual thinking mode. Therefore, ecofeminsm caresabout and analyzes the relation between female and the nature, and denies and criticizesthe modern westem scientific concepts, all which constitute the basic ideas ofecofeminism along with criticizing of phallocentrism and value dualism.The headline of ecofeminsm always falls on the relation between female and thenature, during as short as 30 years of period time, ecofeminism scholars around thetheme form different schools with different viewpoints along with a trend from shallowto deep. From 1970s to the latter of 1980s, the early ecofeminsm, emphasizing on thehistoric results between female and the nature, argued that women are angels to protectenvironment, advocating women actively taking parting in environmental protectionmovement, which promote the development of female emancipation and environmentalprotection movement. There is common ground that the development of femaleliberation and environmental protection is undivided and also both indispensable fortrue liberation. The theoretical contents concerning textures such as Female and Natureand The Death of the Nature get together to composing of features of early ecofeminismand the nature, in which mainly from historic aspect trace back to the relation formationand existence between women and the nature. Some scholars, whose works are tingedwith naturalism, think that, more or less, ubiquitous essential decisive reasons lie inphysical difference between men and women rather than social gender difference. All in all, they analyze the female and the nature through criticizing modern western scientificconcept as well as dualism.With the passage of time and increasing depth on research, many feminist includingecofeminism scholars realize that the emphasis on historic results between female andthe nature by ecofeminism can't get rid of logic contradiction instead lead to essentialiand dualism errors. As a result, some scholars began to deny so-called specialunderstanding, experiencing and evaluate the world in female style and fear thatadmission female closer to the nature than that of male may intensify dictatorship andcontrolling logic, in stead, burying themselves into criticizing the notion related toconnection between women and the nature, they point out that the underlying reasoncontrolled female and the nature turn out to be dominating logic and dualism thinkingmode, greatly criticize central concepts of modern western ethics characterized withcontrolling logic and dualism as follows: rational cognition, mechanical-dominated idea,phallocentrism and human-centrism as well. They want to study the relation betweenwomen and the nature as deep as in the philosophical level beyond the gender limitation,to explore the roots behind the relation, and some even absorb the post-modern conceptsto set up their female and natural ideas.Today, in the 21century, ecofeminism's viewpoints about female and the nature havea far-reaching impact on the world at large against the context of increasing globalecological crisis. Overcoming the one-sided perspective of feminism and ecologistrespectively, ecofeminism, from the relation of female and the nature, takingenvironmental problems and female problems into consider, make the two sidespromote and coordinat with each other.