00195--What is Ecofeminism?

Ecofeminism has become an ever more significant field in both contemporary feminist and environmental studies.  According to Diamond and Orenstein ecofeminism is actually ‘a new term for an ancient wisdom’.  It is in the early 1980’s that this term became prominent, it’s substratum is founded by feminist philosophy, environmental activism, and the European and American peace movements of the late 1970s.  Francoise d’ Eauborne is the one who used this term first ever, in 1980, and then onwards it is adopted by both environmental activists and scholars.