ecofeministadj.n.

1980 Amherst (Mass.) Morning Record 17 Mar. 2/1 The conference is the first ‘eco-feminist’ event of its kind.

1981 Sojourner (Cambridge, Mass.) 31 May 13/2 The course themes will include: connections between the repudiation of the body and the despoliation of the earth, the development of feminist ecological ethics, and the issues of the developing eco-feminist movement.

1984 Environmental Ethics 6 344 From the eco-feminist point of view, deep ecology is simply another self-congratulatory reformist move.

1990 Daughters of Sarah May 34/2 It is precisely those who do not share the ecofeminist, holistic, justice-making thesis of this book whom we must bring on board if we are to save the earth.

1994 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 6 Oct. 38/3 Gottlieb supposes that the predominance of women in the alternative groups has something to do with the ecofeminist claim that women incline toward a benign, harmonious relationship with nature.

2002 A. Feenberg Transforming Technol. (rev. ed.) i. 27 There is an influential strand of ‘green’ and ‘ecofeminist’ theory..that formulates the project of technological reform in terms of a recovery of the body and bodily involvement in nature.

1983 Y. King in L. Caldecott & S. Leland Reclaim Earth i. 13 As eco-feminists the locus of our work is with women in our own communities, in small groups, based on personal affinity, shared concerns, and a sense of connectedness to our landscape.

1986 Listen Real Loud (Nexis) 30 Apr. 1 Ecofeminists..say that any condition that affects our lives and our work is ‘our issue’—even if those conditions affect women and men similarly.

1990 B. McKibben End of Nature ii. iii. 167 Deep ecology takes ‘the side of nature over culture’, complained an ‘eco-feminist’.

1996 New Scientist 24 Feb. 10/1 Witches, druids and ecofeminists and other modern pagans are steadily growing in numbers and influence and represent a new threat to ‘rational’ public policies on scientific issues—not to mention funding for research.

1999 Wells Jrnl. (Electronic ed.) 5 Aug. They will be joined by ecofeminist Ffiona Morgan.