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7 Vol.1, Issue 22, August 2020 ELITE

Ecofeminism and Resource

Management in Covid-19 Crisis

Dina Ibrahim, FEPS Political Science Assistant Lecturer

The first framework discusses gendered sciences of survival
Ecofeminism is one of the approaches within feminist
that are concerned with understanding the gender and its
political ecology. It focuses on the intersectional relationship
impact on creating and supporting healthy environments at
between nature and women. It argues that nature is just like
home and workplaces. The second theme discusses the
women as they face the male oppression they face, and that
environmental rights and responsibilities based on gender
the causes of environmental degradation and the oppression
relations, while the third theme examines popular
of women are related to the same source which is male
environmental movements and its impact on environmental
domination. The challenges and crises that face women and
policies that advocate women and gender rights.
nature are also identical according to this perspective.
Environmental crises are reflected on the status of women in
The first theme investigates the definition of science
various fields, especially with resource management and their
examining what it is and who does it. It examines the
right to have access to them.
various possibilities in defining the relationship between
people and nature within the private and public spheres. It
Environmental feminism presents the problems concerned
also studies the concept of production in the economic and
with the roles of women and their relationship to their
social sense related to the reproductive function.This
environment and its resources on the academic and practical
framework emphasizes the importance of studying the
level. It also examines the environmental feminist movements
intersectionality between local knowledge that arises from
and their effectiveness in supporting gender and development
rural, urban and suburban areas, linking it with gendered
issues. It calls for better opportunities for women in resource
knowledge in daily life. It also focuses on the multiple roles
access in times of crisis and making them available equally as
of women as commercial producers. It assures the need to
men. It also calls for reducing the burdens imposed on them
develop a comprehensive vision of women's roles under
in times of crisis at the political, economic and social levels
complex systems in the private and public spheres and
and resisting oppression they face in the private and public
environmental system, which often puts them in conflict
spheres.
with formal professional sciences that focus only on one
dimension. They also separate those areas, systems and
Ecofeminism offers multiple frameworks to serve as global
knowledge from each other when analyzing the status of
perspectives by studying the experience of developed and
women..
developing countries, and interpreting local experiences
within the context of economic and environmental change
The next article completes the analysis of other themes
processes.
applying them on the Corona crisis.
Ecofeminism provides three frameworks to understand the
experience in which the study of environment, gender, and
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development intersects and works under different political
and economic systems.
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