- Overview
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A story of people whose actions take into account women, non-human animals, nature and Earth.
- Book Intro
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“A story of people trying to lead a good life in a not-so-good world.”
“Can we continue to live like this? Can future generations survive on Earth?” The eco feminist movement started from these questions as a cultural paradigm that seeks to build equal relationships between humans and humans, and humans and nature in modern society, where humans destroy nature, men dominate women, and humans live in competition and greed.
Eco-feminists criticize androcentrism and the development-centric thinking of the ruling class, stand against global conglomerates’ destructive activities, and search for actions we can take at this moment for women, developing countries, and ecology, all alienated from—or sacrificed for—development. This book sheds light on eco-feminism, something we must know for sustainable development, as well as the Korea Eco Feminist Association which has made endeavors for eco-feminism, ecologism, egalitarianism, and feminism to rake root in our society over the past 20 years. Moreover, it makes detailed suggestions that we can put into action right away and persuades readers to build a society in which ecology and humans, and preservation and development can go hand in hand.
- About the Author
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Ecofem
Organized in 1999, Korea Eco Feminist Association strives to find ecological solutions from an eco-feminist perspective and build an equal, sustainable green society. The Association has expanded body diversity activities across society through the campaign “How I look? So what?” which involves body diversity education/camp for teenagers, conferences, and film parties. It also raised the issue of potential harmful impacts of sanitary pads, working to produce “safe pads” and transform menstruation culture. Its books include Living Okay in a Not-So-Okay World; How I look? So What?; Consume Less and Exist More; School Kitchen Garden with Dreams of Nature; and Handmade Sanitary Pads.
