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Ecofeminism In Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

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Ecofeminism:
Ecofeminism is a philosophical and political theory and a movement which combines ecological concerns with feminist ones regarding both as resulting from male domination of society. It reveals the relationship of woman and nature where woman synonyms with nature in aspects like childbirth and creation, moods and seasons, fertility, silence and symbolic protests. Ecofeminists begin with gender as a category of analysis. A feminist approach uses gender analysis as the starting point and gender is the lens through which the initial description and analysis occur. Ecofeminists highlight claims about women as women in their discussions of interconnected systems of unjustified domination. But this is not because gender oppression is …show more content…

The novel mirrors issues and theories like rejection, beauty, love, sex, racism, feminism and eco-feminism. It expresses the theme of disruption and unnatural disturbances of seasons connected to Pecola’s [a girl child and the protagonist] life. It is a tale of a black girl obsessed with a pair of blue eyes who is a victim of racial rejection. The novel focuses about being hated and resistance to contempt of others by the most vulnerable and delicate member of the society, a girl child. The text is divided into four seasons of autumn, winter, spring, summer and portrays …show more content…

Moreover it is not possible to address women’s oppression without addressing environmental degradation. That these two worlds, the human and the natural are inextricably interconnected, may seem so obvious that it’s hard to imagine that they are usually addressed separately. Earth and nature symbolize woman and her femininity. As a woman experiences menstruation, fertility, childbirth and creation, earth too creates and changes according to the seasons. Earth and woman are synchronic and are exploited and harassed by the male domination. Though it is evident that both earth and woman are quiet as they are kept, the fight and protest of them is symbolic and

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