ECOCRITICISM & ECOFEMINISM

ECOCRITICISM AND ECOFEMINISM

WHAT IS ECO- CRITICISM AND ECO-FEMINISM :

Eco - Criticism 

Eco - Feminism

TOPIC	KEY POINTS	UNDERSTANDING OF THE THEORY
ECO-CRITICISM	Interdisciplinary point of views	Eco criticism is the study of literature and the environment from an interdisciplinary point of view, where literature scholars analyze texts that illustrate environmental concerns and examine the various ways literature treats the subject of nature. It takes an interdisciplinary point of view by analyzing the works of authors, researchers and poets in the context of environmental issues and nature. Some eco-critics brainstorm possible solutions for the correction of the contemporary environmental situation, though not all eco-critics agree on the purpose, methodology, or scope of eco-criticism.its  scope has broadened from nature writing, romantic poetry, and canonical literature to take in film, television, theater, animal stories, architectures, scientific narratives and an extraordinary range of literary texts. At the same time, eco-criticism has borrowed methodologies and theoretically informed approaches liberally from other fields of literary, social and scientific study.
ECO-FEMINISM	Exploitation, degradation of nature, subordination and oppression of women	Eco-feminist analysis explores the connections between women and nature in culture, religion, literature and iconography, and addresses the parallels between the oppression of nature and the oppression of women. These parallels include but are not limited to seeing women and nature as property, seeing men as the curators of culture and women as the curators of nature, and how men dominate women and humans dominate nature. Eco-feminism emphasizes that both women and nature must be respected. Eco-feminism is a branch of feminism that sees environmentalism, and the relationship between women and the earth, as foundational to its analysis and practice. Eco-feminist thinkers draw on the concept of gender to analyse the relationships between humans and the natural world.The term was coined by the French writer Françoise d'Eaubonne in her book Le Féminisme ou la Mort (1974)