Study On Merchant's Gender Analysis Of Environmental Issues

Merchant's unique perspective of gender analysis is not only a unique and important supplement in the environmental history,but also provides new ideas for the study of environmental history and environmental ethics.Merchant uses the origin of European ecosystem change as a representative,analyzing the roots of the current ecological crisis from the perspectives of ecology,production,reproduction,and consciousness.It appears from the control of natural resources for livelihoods to the control of natural resources for profit,analyzing the roots of disruptions in ecosystem;the impact of the natural environment change from human culture;the mechanistic view of nature promotes natural development.Merchant's gender analysis of environmental issues mainly involves environmental philosophy,environmental history,and environmental ethics.They are embodied in the aspects of women and environmental movements,the theoretical structure of ecological revolution,and the relationship between human and nature.Among them,Merchant made the role of women in ecology,production,and reproduction as the starting point for the development of socialist ecofeminism,and let it be the four-factor theoretical structure,which is ecology,production,reproduction,and consciousness,for analyzing the specific space-time ecosystems.The new relationship,partnership ethical,between human and nature under the environmental ethics.The partnership ethics is the discard of the homocentric ethics and ecocentric ethics,and explain the necessity of combining the two ethics.Merchant,at the same time,also proposed three dilemmas in the process of the implementation in partnerships ethics,which is free market economy,property rights movement,and cultural differences,which provided direction for our continued research and revealed the role of the groups in theecosystem,which conquered and ignored by western culture,in the perspective of gender.The story has been rebuild,and we are the author of the new story.From the care of women to the care of the disadvantaged and the care of nature,Merchant expounded the roots,phenomena,and outlets of the ecological crisis,which broadened the important path for deep research and sustainable development in the fields of environmental philosophy,environmental history and environmental ethics.