Chapter 7: The Ideology of Environmental Domination

Question 1

Capitalism is, in a way, a secular version of _____________ .

Answer 1

Protestantism

Question 2

Another path that has led to environmental transformation is ___________, the emphasis on the self over the wider community that has long been a central dimension of materialism and self-understanding in the Western tradition.

Answer 2

individualism

Question 3

The carnivalesque body

Answer 3

a body of interconnections and exchanges with the social and natural environment. It is a body of openings an protrusions that connect us with other bodies and with the world around us

Question 4

The classical body

Answer 4

a body of separation from society and nature; the classical body does not belch, pass wind, cough or sneeze on others, eat with an open mouth, sweat, cry, or experience sexual desire (these acts are kept private).

Question 5

Scholars who explore the links between the domination of women and the domination of the environment come from a tradition of inquiry called ____________

Answer 5

ecofeminism.

Question 6

What do ecofeminists argue

Answer 6

the exploitation of women and the environment originates together with social domination of all kinds — whether based on race, ethnicity, class, age, and other forms of social difference treated as hierarchies —not only gender.

Question 7

Ecowomanism

Answer 7

like ecofeminism, takes on the task of unpacking interlocking logics of oppression, but ecowomanism is distinct from ecofeminism in its historical roots and in its deeper emphasis on intersectionality.

Question 8

The process of teasing apart our ideas about nature and sexuality — denaturalizing sex, in other words — and their implications for our environmental relations is often called _______ __________

Answer 8

queer ecology.