FOREWORD
BY JOHN CLARK

Whenever anyone has expressed curiosity concerning the meaning of ecofeminism, I have without hesitation suggested this book. It was a major theoretical breakthrough when it appeared two decades ago, and has since then been an enduring point of reference for me. In fact, it was the inspiration for my article on ‘the lessons of ecofeminism’ in Capitalism Nature Socialism , a journal with which both Ariel Salleh and I have a long association. As a dialectical philosopher and social ecological activist, I have used Ecofeminism as
Politics as a guide to the integrative role of ecofeminism, not only in political ecology, but in any transformative ecological politics, and especially in the growing global eco-socialist movement. I can only begin to summarise here the many reasons why it deserves careful attention.