Ardahan Üniversitesi İnsani Bilimler ve Edebiyat Fakültesi Belgü Dergisi

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Ecofeminism, in the early 1970s, III. The wave emerged with Feminism. In 1974, feminist activist Françoise d'Eaubonne's book "Feminism or Death" established a connection between the exploitation of Nature/Earth and the exploitation of "women"; It is pointed out that the masculine, patriarchal and capitalist developmental understanding is the "architect" of this exploitation. On the other hand, ecofeminism challenges the duality of mind/body, culture/nature, woman/man, which started from Ancient Greece and was conceptualized by Descartes as Cartesian Dualism. This ideology, which draws attention to the masculinity of science, history and culture, draws attention to the fact that the desire for unlimited growth, especially with the Industrial Revolution, and the mottos of modernization/development/progress have turned into a global destruction of nature by causing the insatiable ambitions of the male-dominated world. Ecofeminism opposes this with an Ecofeminist worldview, led by the female identity and body that is exploited identically with Nature. There are different conceptualizations of ecofeminism in the literature - just as in Feminism as a whole - cultural, social, socialist and radical. The subject of this study is independent from this differentiation, but in particular, the basic arguments of cultural ecofeminism and the bonds established with the images of the Mother Goddess, Nature/Earth Goddess and Fertility Goddess in Mythological Discourse, and the references that Ecofeminism gives to the Goddess images in ancient discourses in its attempt to identify women with nature. As a matter of fact, mythological depictions, which appear as one of the most ancient manifestations of women's identification with nature, have also been strong foundations for Ecofeminism. Thus, the aim of this study is to determine the relationship of Ecofeminism, one of the most important Women's Movements, with feminine/feminine images in mythological narratives such as Mother Goddess, Nature/Earth Goddess and Fertility Goddess; It is to make sense of the relationship that ecofeminism establishes with mythological elements at the conceptualization stage. The methodological tools used in doing this are the literature review in the relevant field and the conceptual associations and analyzes that emerge from them.