Development Of Eco-holistic Vision Of Women And Nature

Ecofeminism, a product of the western environment movement & feminism movement that adapt to the social change. As many global cross-cultural feminism. Ecofeminism try to reveal the relationship between every kind of human oppressions. At the same time, it also reflects on the human's purpose in dominating nature. Its key idea is that in western civilization, there is some historical, symbolical & political relationship between devaluation of female & of nature, that is patriarchy. The purpose of Ecofeminism is to reveal & against every kind of devaluation & oppression.The ecofeminists regard the against of oppression, the emancipation of female & the resolution of ecological crisis as their struggle targets. Although Ecofeminism believes that there is a close relationship between female & nature because they are both subject to the same dominant logic. There are different points of view on whether to emphasize the special relationship in the course of female & natural emancipation. As a result, they formed several theoretical schools because of the divergence.As the leader of the social-structured theoretical schools Carolyn Merchant had studied the conceptions of female & nature in different history & culture, then she also had studied how the female & nature was exploited gradually in the course of history. Finally, she discovered the consciousness foundation of the disaster of female & nature. She believed that the special relationship between the female & nature was structured by the society & strengthened by the ideology. The female was oppressed by the male & the nature was oppressed by the human became more & more seriously & intensively under the influence of the patriarchy economic development. We knew the nature is not only female but also male. It is a bisexual, complex & multi-aspect unite .According to these studies, Carolyn Merchant demonstrated her ecological-holism world outlook, methodology & values.