Feminist Ecological Economics and Sustainability

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Date

2007

Authors

Perkins, Patricia E. (Ellie)

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Journal of Bioeconomics

Abstract

New developments in feminist ecological economics and ecofeminist economics are contributing to the search for theories and policy approaches to move economies toward sustainability. This paper summa- rizes work by ecofeminists and feminist ecological economists which is relevant to the sustainability challenge and its implications for the discipline of economics. Both democracy and lower material throughputs are generally seen as basic principles of economic sustainability. Feminist theorists and feminist ecological econ- omists offer many important insights into the conundrum of how to make a democratic and equity-enhancing transition to an economy based on less material throughput. These flow from feminist research on unpaid work and caring labor, provisioning, development, valuation, social reproduction, non-monetized exchange relationships, local economies, redistribution, citizenship, equity-enhancing political institutions, and labor time, as well as creative modeling approaches and activism-based theorizing.

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social resilience, community economies, discourse-based valuation, multi-tasking, work time, quality of life, service sector, sustainable livelihoods, provisioning, feminism, social sustainability, sustaining services, social change, local economies, social reproduction, feminist economies, ecological economics, sustainable development, unpaid work, economic valuation, caring labor, material throughput, economic growth, gender equity, equity

Citation

“Feminist ecological economics and sustainability.” ​Journal of Bioeconomics​, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 227-244