This thesis develops a legal theory reflecting the insights of feminism and environmental philosophy. I argue that human beings are not ontologically separate, but embedded in webs of relationality with natural others. My primary purposes are to 1) delineate ways in which institutions of modernity (such as law and science) have precipitated ecosocial crisis through the attempt to dialectically enforce mastery and control over nature and women; and 2) explore alternate political forms and ontologies which challenge the classical liberalist view of the (human) individual as a radically isolated, discrete, autonomous being. My overarching theme is that law functions as a narrative that can both hinder and enhance the promotion of ecological ideas, and how ecofeminism can contribute to transformative projects of environmental philosophy and feminist law.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc2219 |
| Date | 08 1900 |
| Creators | Mallory, Chaone |
| Contributors | Oelschlaeger, Max, Callicott, J. Baird, Hargrove, Eugene C., 1944- |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | Text |
| Rights | Public, Copyright, Mallory, Chaone, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
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