Ecofeminism can be seen as a movement that sees a connection between the exploitation and degradation of the natural worlds and the subordination and oppression of women, in both cases we can see that they are helpless for instance in degradation and exploitation of our nature that is done by them made techniques or to satisfy the greediness of a man to only think about himself and leaving the consequences it has on nature, whereas with women they have been exploited by men for centuries for their personal needs, they have been treated like a second citizen in their own country. Therefore we can see a strong connection between women and nature.

Ecofeminism first emerged during the mid-1970s alongside the second wave of feminism and green revolution, it brings out elements of togetherness even thou they are two different concepts. The green revolution is seen to have taken the concern about the impact of human activities on the non-human world and from the feminist’s point of view, we take humanity as we have seen they were exploited and oppressed.

The feminist, peace and ecology movements are the reason why ecofeminism got popular, it was series of natural disasters that lead US women to come together and form an eco-feminist committee, whose first conference known as ‘women and life on earth’ took place in 1980.

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Ecofeminism is about connection and wholeness in theory and practices it asserts this special strength and integrity of every living being, it is a woman- identified movement and they have a special work to do in these imperiled times. We can see whenever men have acted against the nature there has been great ecological destruction, in order to save the planet and preserve what we have left for our future generations eco feminists take up a stand against the misuse of nature in any way, wars, nuclear weapons also cause great destruction not only to human life but also to the environment, climate and ecology.

Let’s do in depth in talking about ecofeminism in India, Vandana Shiva has analyzed the links between the degradation of women and the exploitation of nature in the modern setup and how they impact in the Indian context. The pillars of patriarchy are the political, economic, and technological advancement which has men a more superior gender these fields are seen to be male-centric whereas, agriculture, advancements on ecological methods, nature – friendly are seen as women-centric fields. Women have always been given a secondary status and have been treated like a second citizen despite being a very important part of society.

In India traditionally when there was no development and our main source was agriculture, women played a very important role, their daily intake of grains and vegetables were grown and nurtured by women, even to make food women used to go in search of wood they used to carry them back home to burn and use to make food, same way water resources were mostly far away unlike now they used to travel every day to get water, women, and nature have always been in a sync with each other replacing their daily chores with newer scientific methods has tampered with the ecological balance and economically destroyed the rural Indian.

Women’s household work has never been accepted as a real work by the society, their work remains as their duty that every woman need to accept and process a reason to this could be because it falls outside the market sphere. Women have for the longest time been denied their right to inherit land as only male members of the family get to inherit the land passed on to them by their fathers and forefathers.

We can see there is a drastic difference in women run farms and commercial farms, a commercial farm hamper with the natural soil as they use chemicals and fertilizers to increase their productivity, which not only drains the soil out of its natural balance but also decreases the nutrition value in the product. Whereas women-run farms are run on natural productivity of soil, they use fossil fuels and minimal chemicals and natural fertilizers like green manure and compost from farm waste, products from such farms have higher nutritional value and are considered healthy for the soil as well.

Another major reason for women being the victims can be seen by the invention of globalization as more and more of the agriculture society becomes industrialized, women are displaced from their traditional workspace this has also increased the male-female ratio and can be seen as an active reason for the growing female foeticide in the rural areas of India. Modernization which is based on scientific methods sure sounds like the death of the interconnected and balance in nature and this same balance in nature is extended to a similar imbalance between gender and society.

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In the Indian context, women have been denoted by the term of primordial energy or Shakti, from which all substances arises, the manifestation of this energy is called Prakriti or nature which can be seen as an expression of feminism. Women in India are seen worshiping sacred plants like Tulsi (holy basil) this plan can be found in all Hindu homes, if we talk more about the Tulsi plant it has a lot of medicinal benefits for women Tulsi is way more than a plant for them it symbolizes purity.

Both nature and women have motherly traits both can produce and reproduce biologically and both have been exploited for their own well-being, we often hear the phrase of mother nature, nature is linked to a mother because of the way it provides to the human beings need like a mother always the giver and never to ask anything in return, but with the times we are living in we really need to protect our mother nature as she is suffering from all the problems we have built for her, the man-made society will ruin the face of nature sooner or later and it is time we realize this and take a step back in regenerating nature and going back to living a more subtle life.

One such example of women taking up a stand to safeguard the nature can be seen by The Chipko movement, or Chipko Andolan, it was a forest conservation movement that began in India. It began in 1970 in Reni village of Chamoli district, Uttarakhand and went on to become a rallying point for many future environmental movements all over the world. It started the fire within people to conserve forest land and not let huge industries destroy the ecology of the area. In this movement women took an active part they were the backbone of this movement as they hugged the trees and stood in front of the contractors that we assigned to cut trees to build up some new project on the land, women took an active stand and this was the beginning of such movement in India and was a very successful movement for all the rural people, they all came together to protect nature and stood on their beliefs.