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Gender: Cross-Cutting Theme in Environmental and Climate Change Projects Good practices of the Resilience Project
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“As man proceeds toward his announced goal of the conquest of nature, he has written a depressing record of destruction, directed not only against the earth he inhabits but against the life that shares it with him”. -Rachel Carson, La Primavera Silenciosa
By Brenda Suárez
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he analysis of the special relationship between women and the environment emerged in the 1970s with the ecofeminist movement. At first, it was a criticism of the exacerbated exploitation model of nature associated with the male sex domination, compared to another characterized by love, care, protection, and defense of life, considered feminine.
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This debate has evolved, and more critical theoretical positions have emerged, which call into question whether to attribute male and female traits to the way of interacting with the environment reproduces gender stereotypes. The truth is that the role of women regarding the environmental crisis and its effects cannot be ignored.
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