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Ecofeminist Citizenship

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Katherine Pettus
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Abstract

In this article I discuss how some women activists experience their citizenship locally and around the world through their work for the environment and resistance to systems which threaten world existence. By looking at the oikos-polis distinction in Aristotle as the genesis of environmental pathologies which give rise to newly complementary categories of citizenship and ecofeminism, I consider moral pluralism and agonistic liberalism as non-hierarchical theoretical frameworks for thinking about citizenship.

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Hypatia , Volume 12 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Citizenship in Feminism: Identity, Action, and Locale , Fall 1997 , pp. 132 - 155
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Copyright © 1997 by Hypatia, Inc.

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