Ecofeminism as Politics
reader comments


‘A nascent political economy…a unique and powerful explanatory position.’
John Barry
author of Rethinking Green Politics, reviewer for Environmental Politics, Autumn 1998, UK

‘I place Ariel Salleh’s scholarship in the front rank with the work of ecofeminists such as Vandana Shiva, Rosemary Ruether, and Susan Griffin.’

Max Oelschlaeger
author of Caring for Creation and Postmodern Environmental Ethics (ed.), US

' like jumping into a lively ongoing conversation…about ecofeminism, global development, socialism, ecology, and postmodernism…[But] one cannot read this text without a visceral sense of horror at what [capitalist patriarchal] power is doing to people and places… '
Sarah Ebenreck
ecological philosopher, reviewer for Environmental Ethics, 1999, No. 4, US

a challenge to Marxists to reconstitute their critique of capitalism, especially the fundamental contradiction between use value (human development) and exchange value (production for profit…’
Paul Burkett
author of Marx and Nature, reviewer for New Political Science, June 2001, US

‘Passionately written, well researched, and sweeping in theoretical scope…there is something refreshing about Salleh’s inclusionary politics.’
Betsy Hartmann
author of Reproductive Rights and Wrongs, reviewer for Women’s Review of Books, October 1998, US

persuasive account of ecofeminism’s role in critiquing the foundations of global economic, intellectual, and political orders… Salleh has addressed long-standing criticisms of of ecofeminism as essentialist…suitable as an undergraduate text since the language is clear, the arguments succinct and referencing comprehensive.’
Louise Edwards
reviewer for Australian Journal of Politics and History, June 2000, AU

a feisty attack on feminism and environmentalism as single-issue, postmodern, disconnected movements …Salleh develops her arguments at several levels of analysis, and with a wealth of empirical material.’
Joan Martinez-Alier
author of Ecological Economics and editor of Ecologica Politica , Spain

feminists like Hartsock, Mellor, and Salleh…can be said to have taken some aspects of Marx more seriously than many Marxists.’
Nigel Lee
‘A Triple Review’, reviewer for Capital & Class, 2000, No. 72 , UK