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The paper presents the state of question and a brief historical sketch of ecofeminism, its impact on ethics, its interdisciplinary method, and the challenges it presents for theology. The main interest of this feminist current consists in its approach towards sustainability, overcoming anthropocentrism and androcentrism. Connections are shown between the feminine condition and the exploitation of the planet and the evolution of the discipline from a movement of anthropological thought towards a current of bridging dialogue between ecological, gender and ethical concerns. The incipient ecofeminist spirituality is the means for the praxis of a biophilic human life where theology can find a future of relevance and influence in society and politics, through the promotion of women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Feminist frameworks have focused on gender inequality as the fundamental explanatory factor of male violence against women in union. This paper extends the analysis to contributions produced through social research. The approaches studied consider the personal characteristics of victims and aggressors (individual focus), the male-female power relationship within the couple (dyadic focus), and structural and symbolic factors (macro-social focus). An exploration of the respective contributions of these different perspectives shows that they offer only partial, inadequate approaches, given the multidimensional complexity of the problem. The main conclusions recognize that it is necessary to develop multi-level and inter-relational analytical frameworks such as the intersectional paradigm, in order to achieve a better understanding of the connection between gender inequality and male violence against women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Female workers participation has been a prominent dimension in the analysis of Latin America agribusiness restructuration processes. Multiple studies describe women's presence in critical places within production process. Skills requires for this jobs are usually associated to socialization process instead of knowledge acquired through working experience. In this paper, I think about the construction of analytical tools that make possible to study women's experiences as agribusiness workers. Research was realized in Uco Valley, Mendoza province, Argentina, which is one of the most important productive areas of the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the present paper, feminist ethnography was used as investigation methodology to analyze different gender models for the alcoian society, with special emphasis on their position within the prestige and power pyramid of the Moors and Christian Festivity. This analysis improves on the existing knowledge of the reasons for the social conflict in which the alcoian society has been immersed during the last thirteen years when Nuria Martínez became the first woman with rights in the up-to then masculine alcoian rite. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The work of Michel Foucault has been read from a feminist point of view in different ways. Feminist readers of Foucault have different opinions on the relevance and usefulness of Foucault's concepts and analyses. We argue that the dialogue between both positions has been complex but extremely interesting, both for feminist practices and for any analytics of power. In this paper we discuss some of the basic elements of agreement and disagreement that feminist authors have showed with Foucault. We finally argue that reading Foucault's work taking into account its feminist critique may be very useful in developing a deeper analysis of power relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]