The point of view of ecofeminism

Abstract

To extend the look on the articulating axes between feminism and proposals for planetary sustainability, three texts of Vandana Shiva, one of the central figures in the world in the field of ecofeminism are posted here. In them the author presents new ways of seeing and understanding concepts such as poverty and democracy, impeaches development as a culturally biased project, which destroys the healthy and sustainable lifestyles and creates material poverty, and denounces violence of corporate globalization.feminism, gender discourse, Latin America, subjective dimension of being