One of the most basic tenants of feminist environmentalism is that
             people's relationships to their environments are differentiated by gender.
             A review of the ecofeminist movement reveals a deep division between
             essentialist and anti-essentialist positions that actually obscures the
             fundamental flaw within the entire movement. Ultimately, the ecofeminist
             assertion that men and women's relationships to their environments are
             fundamentally different seems to be fundamentally erroneous, and fails to
             take into consideration more important factors like race, economics, and
             Ecofeminism is seen as "a feminist rebellion within male-dominated
             radical environmentalism" (Sturgeon, 25). Ruether notes "Ecofeminism ...
             explores how male domination of women and domination of nature are
             interconnected, both in cultural ideology and in social structures" (2).
             Essentially, ecofeminism at its most basic definition focuses on the ties
             that exist between ideologies that result in the degradation and
             destruction of the environment and ideologies that result in injustices
             To the feminist environmentalist movement, the idea that humans are
             somehow separate and hold dominion over nature is problematic. Ruether
             argues that the humans desire to change the earth itself is symptomatic of
             this larger issue, rooted in the idea that nature is somehow not divine and
             subhuman. Instead, Ruether and other feminist environmentalists tent to
             "assume that the earth forms a living system, of which humans are an
             inextricable part" (Ruether, 5). Here, humans do not hold dominion over
             the earth and other forms of life, part are instead an integrated part of
             Ecofeminism, while it essentially argues that people's relationships
             to their environments are differentiated by gender, has many different
             forms. In Ecofeminist Natures: Race, Gender, Feminist Theory, and Political
             Action, Noel Sturgeon notes tha...