Rod i ekologija: odjeci u Srbiji
Gender and Ecology: Echoes in Serbia

Author(s): Dragana Popović
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Sociology, Gender history, Environmental interactions
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: ecology; eco/feminism; environmental protection; environmentalism
Summary/Abstract: Since the mid 20th century feminism and environment protection movement meet on many different levels. They both critically redefine scientific paradigms bringing feminist critics of science close to ecological/ environmental theories in a historical, sociological, methodological and epistemological context. Modern ecofeminism, joining up both movements, reveals how women and nature contrary to machines and technologies, are still considered as insufficiently productive. This is how our patriarchal economy still promotes the concept of masculine development, making the categories of development and productivity sources of gender inequality and environmental destruction. This paper deals with the development of the ecological conscience in Serbia today analyzing if it reached the level of a consistent social theory. It questions if the feminism and environmentalism in this country in transition, both in theory and practice, recognize each other as allies and promoters of the same ideas, or still travel side by side, on parallel but different paths.

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