Changing Nature of Eco/Feminism
Subtitle: Telling Stories from Clayoquot Sound
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780774826273
Subjects: Feminists; Women, political activity; Canada, environmental conditions; Ecofeminism; Women, biography
Description: Twenty-odd years after activists set up a peace camp blocking a logging road into an extensive area of temperate rainforest in Clayoquot Sound, that summer of protest still holds a prominent place in Canadian environmental discourse. Yet although the camp was said to be based on feminist or eco/feminist principles, insufficient attention has been paid to its impact on feminism and the debates that were raging at that time. Moore sets out to remedy this through a careful, qualitative study of the peace camp. She demonstrates that the sheer vitality of eco/feminist politics at the camp confounded dominant narratives of contemporary feminism and re-imagined eco/feminist politics for new times.--Provided by publisher