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Being a Network: Personal Life and Political Participation Within Ecofeminist Networks
Regina C. Di Ciommo - rdiciommo@linkway.com.br
The authoress is lady doctor in Sociology and performs post-doctorate at Laboratory of Human Ecology – LEHE – Department of Hydrobiology, at UFSCar – Universidade Federal de São Carlos, SP, Brasil.
Abstract
Bearing in mind the debate related to the pertinence of ecofeminist values and theories for the emancipating movement of women, this research was conducted with the intention of analyzing procedures, values and political participation among the members of the Brazilian ecofeminist and feminist networks, with the objective of investigating in what manner they become manifest in the personal lives and the attitudes of the members of these non-governmental organizations. The network can be considered as being a new important form of non-hierarchic organization, in which a new relationship paradigm can be developed. Contradictions could be observed between the ecofeminist discourses and the difficulties experienced in daily procedures and in family relationships. The necessary transformation process still seems to be starting. The apprenticeship and the change in the relationships in the domestic sphere seem to be reflected in the political procedures of the public environment and, on the other hand, the environmental activism, its struggles and conquests act as a reference for changes in the personal and private environment, in a process of consolidation of feminist citizenship through participation in ecofeminist and feminist organizations.
KEYWORDS: networks – ecological movement – feminism – ecofeminism – category – political participation.
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 may 2005 |
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