Ecofeminism as a perspective in scientific research

Abstract

The research presents ecofeminism as a theme as a contribution to national scientific research. Given the theme, the research configured as exploratory, with an empirical basis, aimed to identify the subjects, in any area of knowledge, in national scientific journals, which are being discussed from the perspective of ecofeminism. The methodology consisted of a survey and study of the specialized literature for theoretical support and data collection. For the collection, bibliographic searches were carried out on the Portal of Periodicals of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel, aiming to collect the subjects of scientific articles from periodicals in Portuguese, through their titles, abstracts and keywords, in any area of knowledge that involved ecofeminism as a perspective. The results show little research covering ecofeminism as a perspective, with 11 articles identified, but it demonstrated the potential of ecofeminism as a vision on different subjects. Thus, the research infers, based on the results, that different societal issues involving gender and nature need to be further discussed from the point of view of ecofeminism, for bringing alternatives and understandings from the point of view of women, and reflects, in this sense, the need for more research that contemplates facts or phenomena at the national level, since Brazil has a historical and accentuated socio-environmental domination