Although most scholars writing in English about feminist thought credit Francoise d'Eaubonne with coining the term ecofeminism, very few actually discuss the content of any relevant texts written by her. Many also assert that is an essentialist, apolitical, and ahistorical movement with no relevance to current feminist or ecological concerns. This paper will present a response to such critiques through an analysis of the original French text of d'Eaubonne's Ecologie-Feminisme: Revolution ou Mutation? (Ecology-Feminism: Revolution or Mutation, 1978) and will provide a reflection on the historical evolution of the term ecofeminism within international feminist circles.
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Danielle Roth‐Johnson (2013) studied this question.