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Deeper than Deep Ecology: The Eco-Feminist Connection

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This chapter offers a feminist critique of deep ecology as presented in the seminal papers of Ame Naess and Bill Devall. It outlines the fundamental premises involved and analyzes their internal coherence. Not only are there problems on logical grounds, but the tacit methodological approaches of the two papers are inconsistent with the deep ecologists’ own substantive comments. It discusses these shortcomings in terms of a broader feminist critique of patriarchal culture and points out some practical and theoretical contributions which eco-feminism can make to genuinely deep ecology problematic.

beyond that perception of otherness lies the perception of psyche, polity and cosmos, as metaphors of one another.

John Rodman (1977)

Originally published as: Salleh, Ariel. 1984. Deeper Than Deep Ecology: The Eco-Feminist Connection. Environmental Ethics 6 (Winter): 339–345.

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  1. University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Ariel Salleh

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  1. University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Lara Stevens

  2. LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Peta Tait

  3. University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Denise Varney

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Salleh, A. (2018). Deeper than Deep Ecology: The Eco-Feminist Connection. In: Stevens, L., Tait, P., Varney, D. (eds) Feminist Ecologies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64385-4_2

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