Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface and acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: dimensions of justice in environmental law
- Part I The notion of justice in environmental law
- 2 The second cycle of ecological urgency: an environmental justice perspective
- 3 Describing the elephant: international justice and environmental law
- 4 Law, justice and rights: some implications of a global perspective
- 5 Gender and environmental law and justice: thoughts on sustainable masculinities
- Part II Public participation and access to the judiciary
- Part III State sovereignty and state borders
- Part IV North–South concerns in global contexts
- Part V Access to natural resources
- Part VI Corporate activities and trade
- Index
- References
5 - Gender and environmental law and justice: thoughts on sustainable masculinities
from Part I - The notion of justice in environmental law
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 June 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface and acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: dimensions of justice in environmental law
- Part I The notion of justice in environmental law
- 2 The second cycle of ecological urgency: an environmental justice perspective
- 3 Describing the elephant: international justice and environmental law
- 4 Law, justice and rights: some implications of a global perspective
- 5 Gender and environmental law and justice: thoughts on sustainable masculinities
- Part II Public participation and access to the judiciary
- Part III State sovereignty and state borders
- Part IV North–South concerns in global contexts
- Part V Access to natural resources
- Part VI Corporate activities and trade
- Index
- References
Summary
A society's symbols and images of nature express its collective consciousness. They appear in mythology, cosmology, science, religion, philosophy, language and art. Scientific, philosophical and literary texts are sources of the ideas and images used by controlling elites, while rituals, festivals, songs and myths provide clues to the consciousness of ordinary people.
Carolyn MerchantGender and the development of a sense of justice: a Northern perspective
Carolyn Merchant's influential book The Death of Nature. Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution, originally appeared in 1980. Two years later, another very influential book on gender, justice and care was published. Carol Gilligan's In a Different Voice started a discussion about the difference between a primarily male ethic of justice and a primarily female morality of care. The morality of care was understood to rest on the understanding of relationships primarily towards concrete persons with whom we have special and valuable relationships. Gilligan quoted Freud, who concluded that women ‘show less sense of justice than men, that they are less ready to submit to the great exigencies of life, [and] that they are more often influenced in their judgements by feelings of affection or hostility’. She also quoted Jean Piaget, who considered that the legal sense was essential to moral development, and who viewed that this sense ‘is far less developed in little girls than in boys’.
Merchant does not mention Gilligan in her later book from 1989 on Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England.
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- Environmental Law and Justice in Context , pp. 98 - 114Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009
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