How does Ecofeminism Speak to Issues of Rural Women in Kenya?
In order to frame this complex strategy, ecofeminism offers some expanded parameters and worth by unifying gender and environmental issues. Notwithstanding the current overhaul in language and situatedness of all intellectual inquiries in this post-era, we find ecofeminism partly akin to African feminisms and postmodern theories as well as sensibly infused with anthropological and sociological analyses and field data. What is ecofeminism? Ecofeminism emerged in western scholarship in the 1970s with an increasing consciousness of the connection between some women, human rights and the exploitation of nature. French writer Francoise d’Eaubonne coined the term ecofeminisme in 1974, and called upon women to lead an ecological revolution to save the planet (Merchant, 1995:5). Familiar ecofeminists include Vandana Shiva, Susan Griffin, Francois d’Eubonne, Carolyn Merchant, Val Plumwood, Ynestra King, Karen Warren and others. Vandana Shiva (1988) argues that patriarchy (and colonialism) have
