Ecofeminism

= representations that explore the connections between the oppression of women and the degradation of the natural environment. It links ecological issues with social justice, gender equality, and power structures: patriarchal systems exploit both women and nature, treating both as resources to be controlled, dominated, or commodified.

Types of Ecofeminism

Spiritual ecofeminism

Celebrates women’s intuitive or spiritual connection to nature.

Social ecofeminism

Focuses on social structures, political economy, and environmental justice.

Cultural ecofeminism

Examines how cultural narratives and symbols link women and nature.

Epistemic injustice

Those forms of unfair treatment that relate to issues of knowledge, understanding, and participation in communicative practices / the belief that some people are unjustly denied credibility or systematically misunderstood.

Identity prejudice

Occurs any time a member of a marginalized group fails to be considered authoritative because of their identity or positionality, / the presence of “identity prejudice” is central to epistemic injustice.

Ethnomathematics

Belief in the universality of mathematics can limit one from considering and recognizing that different modes of thought or culture may lead to different forms of mathematics, radically different ways of counting, ordering, sorting, measuring, inferring, classifying, and modeling.