Case Study Of Eco-Feminism

In society we often don’t acknowledge that our environment is at high risk. We ignore this fact and just decide to focus on other topics such as politics, gun control, religion, etc... However, what we don’t realize is that the resources in our environment are not eternal and we are constantly losing resources due to the lack of conservation. In the past 12,000 years, 46% of all the existing trees in the world have been cut down. In 1977, Wangari Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement (“Eco activist Wangari Maathai keeps her faith in the power of grassroots”). The Green Belt Movement mainly focuses on empowerment to all gender, tree planting, and local and international advocacy for environmental protection. While we live in a society in

Ecofeminism is a radical environmental movement that recognizes a connection between the exploitation of nature and the oppression of woman. There are many interpretations of feminist ecology and it has evolved over time. Garrard specifically discusses in his book, Ecocriticism, how society associates women with nature and emotions

Anita Desai and Shashi Deshpande both are the feminist authors. The word Feminism means getting the same rights for women as enjoyed by men. This word originated from the latin word ‘femina’ meaning ‘woman’ that’s mainly focused on women’s rights, status and power at par with men on the grounds of equality of sexes. Feminism was a great movement fights for women’s equal rights. However, there is a difference between Indian feminism and Western feminism in terms of traditions and norms, culture and society, life and living styles. Indian Feminism never tried to change the overall system and never denies religion. It only demands social reformation, the equal treatment and respect,

Stock markets generally reflect the economic conditions of an economy, Alfaro, Chanda, Kalemli-Ozcan, & Sayek (2004). If an economy is growing then output will be increasing and most firms should be experiencing increased profitability. This higher profit makes the company shares more attractive – because they can give bigger dividends to shareholders. If the economy is forecast to enter into a recession, then stock markets will generally fall. This is because a recession means lower profits, less dividends and even the prospect of firms going bankrupt, which would be bad news for shareholders.

The first couple chapters of Ecofeminist Philosophy goes over the basics of the theory of ecofeminism. One of the biggest ideas is that "Male centered thinking is the root cause of environmental destruction"22. The basic theory doesn’t just apply to women, but people of color, people in poor districts, and non-human nature. One example of this is how women are being related to lumber. How men take lumber over use it, and leaving nothing.

In Jyoti Hottam’s (2010) article, How India’s Success is killing the Holy River, she he uses an ethos argument that illustrates the words from Sunita Narain, one of India’s most influential environmentalists.

Financial theory accepts the belief that a share’s return should be proportional to the risk received by its holder. There is a need of a risk-return equilibrium model. Since the nativity of the efficient market hypothesis (EMH), an equilibrium model was only the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM). The CAPM constitutes of two types of returns, the risk free rate of returns of the Treasury bills and beta times the return on the market portfolio. The following equation is the basis of this model:

As women’s rights had a very positive and bright past in India, there then began the Age of Buddhism, a period for which the way of life for women was crumbling. By the Smriti Age there was a shift in India’s history where women went from having full

The Stock Market is a place where people can chose to invest in public companies and possibly receive dividend when value of the company increases which is often measured by a shareholder by a share’s worth. People investing in companies can also lose money if the company invested in isn’t making money for itself. In this Economics project, students were supplied with arbitrary amount of money to buy stock and observe how the dynamic stock market works. With $10,000 I chose to invest mostly in TVIX, SIRI, and CNAT.

Modern day India has been highlighted through Deepak Mehta's trilogy Fire, Earth and Water. The films have been deemed controversial and has stirred up debates amongst traditionalists in India. Many were not receptive because they believe the films were a misrepresentation of India. However, I believe the films were thought provoking and liberating. Mehta represents the voice for the unheard voices in India. Women are often treated as objects rather than human beings, so Mehta speaks for the unheard voices through her films. Mehta used the three elements essential to life (fire, earth and water) to accentuate the lives of those unheard voices as she confronts religion and traditional social mores in India.

According to the Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights, a global women’s foundation, women comprise the majority of the world’s poorest individuals and experience systematic marginalization, discrimination, and violence . This disparity for women as compared to other populations makes them especially vulnerable to the negative effects of climate change and environmental degradation. Many of them take actions to mobilize for environmental rights, but when they do, they are often faced with a myriad of obstacles because of their activism and because they are women. Female activist leaders are vulnerable and the nature of their work

Feminist is a range of movements and ideas that share a common goal. The ideas of economic, cultural, personal, and social rights for women. The environment is the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates and as a whole or in a particular geographical area, especially as affected by human activity. I picked these two topics because of how feminist and environment go together, the ideas that they have a common goal, working together to become something awesome. Feminist want to make the world a better place for everyone. This is how they become ecofeminism is relations of complementarity rather than power between culture/nature,

Eco-critical studies probe into the relationship between the writer’s texts and nature. Eco-criticism is an ecological approach towards literary studies. The word Eco is the short form of ecology. Ecological studies probe into the attitude of humans towards nature. It ventures to traverse the different aspects of the environment in literary texts and conceptual discourse. In Indian fictions some authors use ecological concept as the centre and some takes it as secondary. ‘Ecocritical readings of canonical texts, the, begin by adding a different perspective, and are not limited to works self-evidently about nature’(Barry 250). In Indian fiction there are not many novels that deal with the theme of ecocriticism. So in that concern, the dissertation concentrates on Amitav Ghosh’s novel The Hungry Tide in an eco-critical perspective. The story has been developed by the Sundarbans region in India that acts as a backbone of the story. The novel brings how the connection between human and nature is not just interdependent but

Feminism in India is a set of movements which defining, establishing and defending equal political, economic and social rights and equal opportunities for Indian women. Feminist criticism was not inaugurated until late in the 1960s.Behind it, however lie two centuries of struggle for the recognition of women’s cultural roles and achievements and for women’s social and political rights marked by such books as Mary Wollstone Craft’s A Vindication Of The Rights Of Women (1792), John Stuart Mill’s The Subjection Of Women (1869), and the American Margaret Fuller’s Women in The Nineteenth Century

"For the majority of women ...continuing obstacles have hindered their ability to achieve economic autonomy and to ensure sustainable livelihoods for themselves and their dependants. Women are active in a variety of economic areas, which they often combine, ranging from wage labor and subsistence farming and fishing, to the informal sector. However, legal and customary barriers to ownership of or means of access to land, natural