Global Ecofeminisms

Articles

Benson, K. (2020). Pan-Africanism, feminism and popular education in the struggle against water grabbing in Africa: An interview with Coumba Toure. Agenda, 34(4), 112–121. https://doi.org/10.1080/10130950.2020.1798792 

Christou, A. (2024). Ecofeminism and the cultural affinity to genocidal capitalism: Theorising necropolitical femicide in contemporary Greece. Social Sciences, 13(5), 263. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13050263 

D’Alessio, F. (2024). Women’s precarity in a globalised world: An ecofeminist perspective. Acta Academica, 56(2), 49-62. https://doi.org/10.38140/aa.v56i2.8971 

Federici, E. (2022). Why ecofeminism matters: Narrating/translating ecofeminism(s) around the world. Iperstoria, 20, 66-77. https://doi.org/10.13136/2281-4582/2022.i20.1256 

Finzer, E. (2015). Mother Earth, earth mother: Gabriela Mistral as an early ecofeminist. Hispania 98(2), 243-251. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hpn.2015.0058 

Guerra, P. (2023). DIY, fanzines and ecofeminism in the Global South: ‘This city is my sister’. DIY, Alternative Cultures & Society, 1(3), 299-311. https://doi.org/10.1177/27538702231211062 

Hargreaves, S., Khan, L., Mapondera, M., Shamuyarira, W., & Walters, S. (2025). A critical exploration of Pan-African ecofeminist popular education within WoMin’s feminist schools. Studies in the Education of Adults, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/02660830.2024.2445905 

James, A., & Walters, S. (2025). African ecofeminist popular education in relation to Annette Gough’s body of work. Environmental Education Research, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2025.2463612 

Laoera, B. D. (2023). Female activists in environmental movements on Instagram: An ecofeminism perspective in the Indonesian context. Media – Kultura – Komunikacja Społeczna, 19(1), 49-62. https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1218545 

Mapondera, M., & Hargreaves, S. (2021). WoMin – The journey from research initiative to an African ecofeminist alliance. Feminist Africa, 2(1), 139–150. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48725698 

Moore, N. (2011). Eco/feminism and rewriting the ending of feminism: From the Chipko movement to Clayoquot Sound. Feminist Theory, 12(1), 3-21. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464700110390592

Parameswaran, G. (2022). A history of ecofeminist-socialist resistance to eco-crisis in India. Journal of International Women’s Studies, 24(2), Article 4. https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol24/iss2/4 

Serafini, P. (2021). A decolonial, ecofeminist ethic of care. Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, 29(1), 222–224. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12998 

Sturgeon, N. (1999). Ecofeminist appropriations and transnational environmentalisms. Identities, 6(2–3), 255–279. https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.1999.9962645 

Sydee, J., & Beder, S. (2001). Ecofeminism and globalisation: A critical appraisal. Democracy & Nature, 7(2), 281–302. https://doi.org/10.1080/10855660120064600 

Taha, H. (2024). Ecofeminist pedagogy and the internationalization of higher education: Challenges, opportunities and social change. Quantum Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 5(5), 11–23. https://doi.org/10.55197/qjssh.v5i5.423 

Tolbert, S. (2025). Unforgetting ‘old’ materialisms: Ecofeminist education for the Trumpocene. Environmental Education Research, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2025.2461659 

Tomalin, E  (2018) Gender and the greening of Buddhism: Exploring scope for a Buddhist ecofeminism in an ultramodern age. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 11(4), 455-480. https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.32469 

Books and Chapters

Akbulut, B. (2024). A feminist degrowth for unsettling transition. In M. Lang, M. A. Manahan, & B. Bringel (Eds.), The geopolitics of green colonialism: Global justice and ecosocial transitions (1st ed., pp. 194–205). Pluto Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.12865310.19 

Federici, S. (2022). Eco-feminism and the commons: The feminization of resistance in Latin America. In L. Pellizzoni, E. Leonardi, & V. Asara, Handbook of critical environmental politics (pp. 554-563). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839100673.00050 

Gough, A. (2024). Gender and environmental education: Feminist and other(ed) perspectives. Routledge. 

Holmes, C. (2020). Feminist approaches to environmentalism: Ecofeminism, ecowomanism, and borderlands environmentalism. In  L. A. Saraswati, & B. L. Shaw (Eds.), Feminist and queer theory: An intersectional and transnational reader (pp. 383-389). Oxford University Press.

Madhanagopal, D., Bond, P., & Jiménez, M. B. (2022). Eco-feminisms in theory and practice in the Global South: India, South Africa, and Ecuador. In D. Madhanagopal, C. T. Beer, B. R. Nikku, & A. J. Pelser (Eds.), Environment, climate, and social justice: Perspectives and practices from the Global South (pp. 275-296). 

Mies, M., & Shiva, V. (2023). Ecofeminism. Bloomsbury Academic. 

Oswald-Spring, U. (2022). The impact of climate change on the gender security of Indigenous women in Latin America. In D. Madhanagopal, C. T. Beer, B. R. Nikku, & A. J. Pelser (Eds.), Environment, climate, and social justice: Perspectives and practices from the Global South (pp. 117-142). 

Randriamaro, Z. (2024). Eco-feminist perspectives from Africa. In M. Lang, M. A. Manahan, & B. Bringel (Eds.), The geopolitics of green colonialism: Global justice and ecosocial transitions (1st ed., pp. 182–193). Pluto Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.12865310.18 

Shiva, V. (2016). Staying alive: Women, ecology, and development [Reprint ed.]. North Atlantic Books. 

Skosana, D., & Cock, J. (2023). “Our existence is resistance”: Women challenging mining and the climate crisis in a time of COVID-19. In V. Satgar, & R. Ntlokotse (Eds.), Emancipatory feminism in the time of Covid-19: Transformative resistance and social reproduction (pp. 85–102). Wits University Press. https://doi.org/10.18772/22023078264.10 

Vakoch, D. A. (Ed.). (2022). The Routledge handbook of ecofeminism and literature (Part I: Literatures in Diverse Languages). Routledge. 

Other

Biswas, M. (2017). Seeds of neocolonialism in development discourse: A study of neoliberal “megarhetorics” of global development and ecofeminist resistance [PhD dissertation, University of Texas at El Paso]. Open Access Theses & Dissertations (Paper 414).
https://scholarworks.utep.edu/open_etd/414 

Kanter, M. (2023). Modern slavery as a product of transnational corporate supply chains: An ecofeminist evaluation of systems to address the linkage between modern slavery, climate change, and gender injustice [University honors thesis, Portland State University]. PDX Scholar (Paper 1418). https://doi.org/10.15760/honors.1450 

WoMin. (2019). Women hold up the sky – African women for climate justice [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpV6ueTn7b95hpY-Jp9CcWR4gyup1aYwH