Chris Crittenden teaches applied ethics at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Recent publications inclued articles in Environmental Ethics and The Trumpeter. His research interests focus on the intersection of environmental, business, psychological, and feminist concerns. He would like to thank Francoise Baylis for her helpful suggestions.
摘要
This paper develops a psychological and ethical ecofeminist position and then compares ecofeminism to corporate and free market capitalism in terms of effects along four scales of well-being: democracy/human rights, environmental health, psychological health, and cruelty toward animals. Using aspects of symbolic interactionism and Antony Weston's self-validating reduction model, it is demonstrated that an ecofeminist belief system tends to promote moral and psychological health whereas the discussed forms of capitalistic thinking militate in the other direction. Ecofeminism is not, however, incompatible with all forms of capitalism, and toward the end of supporting this thesis the rudiments of an ecofeminist capitalism are provided, a capitalism radically divergent from traditional forms yet nevertheless respectful of certain key principles.
目次
ABSTRACT 51 I. The Power of Belief 52 II. Ecofeminism 54 III. Free market vs corporate capitalism 55 IV. Free market, corporate, and ecofeminism ideologies 56 V. Ecofeminist capitalism 60 VI. Conclusion 61 Notes 62 References 62
