Environmentalism, Feminism, and Gender |
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| Authors: | D Clayton Smith |
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| Institution: | Assistant professor of sociology at Western Kentucky University. Professor Smith's primary research interest is in the connections among social psychology, environmental and natural resources sociology, community sociology, and social movements theory. He also maintains an interest in student performance differences on education tests that he developed while he worked as a research sociologist with the Kentucky Department of Education. Professor Smith is the author (with E. Walsh and R. Warland) of Don't Burn it Here: Grassroots Challenges to Trash Incinerators;(Penn State Press). |
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| Abstract: | Although social scientists have written much recently about environmentalism, feminism, and gender, insufficient systematic examination of their interrelations has been done. The lack of adequate research on links among these three concepts limits their usefulness for both grassroots mobilization efforts and general theory development. The present exploratory study surveys a college student sample ( N = 393) clarifying the relationships between liberal environmentalism, gender, and feminism. Relationship between feminism and attitudes toward human use of the environment and between gender and environmental regulation are found suppressed by a relationship between feminism and environmentalism. Although tentative, these findings suggest new directions for the study of ecofeminism. |
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