Marti Kheel
Marti Kheel (born 1948 in New York City , † November 19, 2011 in Greenwich ) was an animal liberation activist , vegan researcher and environmental ethicist . Her book Nature Ethics: An Ecofeminist Perspective (2008) and the much discussed and reprinted essay The Liberation of Nature: A Circular Affair (1984) are considered to pave the way for the ethics of care approach of feminist environmental ethics , which she shared with Josephine Donovan and Carol J. Adams developed and defended. Kheel co-founded Feminists for Animal Rights in 1982 .
She was one of five other children of the journalist Ann Sunstein Kheel († 2003) and the lawyer Theodore W. Kheel (1914-2010). Kheel first studied history at the University of Wisconsin , then moved to McGill University and graduated in 1983 with an MA from the Department of Sociology . By 1986, she completed another MA program at Antioch University , before finally receiving her PhD from the Graduate Theological Union of the University of California, Berkeley . Most recently, she held a visiting professorship in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management of this alma mater . A specialist conference for eco-feminist exchange with a focus on Kheels work is scheduled for 2012 at Wesleyan University .
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- Marti Kheel: Sexism in language: a case study of language change at McGill University . 1983. McGill University ) (Master's thesis at the Department of Sociology at
- Marti Kheel: Women, ethics, and anima (l) s . 1986. Antioch University ) (Master's thesis at
- Marti Kheel: An ecofeminist critique of holist nature ethics: attending to non-human animals . In: Graduate Theological Union . 2000. (Ph.D. Thesis at the Graduate Theological Union of the University of California, Berkeley )
- Marti Kheel: Nature ethics: An ecofeminist perspective . Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, 2008, ISBN 0-7425-5201-2 .
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- Marti Kheel: An / Aesthetics: The Re-Presentation of Women and Animals . In: Between the Species . 1, No. 2, 1985, p. 10.
- Marti Kheel: The liberation of nature: A circular affair . 1985.
- Marti Kheel: Animal Liberation is a Feminist Issue . In: The New Catalyst Quarterly to (winter 1987/88) . 1987, pp. 8-9.
- Marti Kheel: Nature and feminist sensitivity . In: Animal Rights and Human Obligations . 261, 1989.
- Marti Kheel: From Healing Herbs to Deadly Drugs: Western Medicine's War Against the Natural World . In: Healing the Wounds: The Promise of Ecofeminism . New Society Publishers, Philadelphia 1989, ISBN 1-85425-016-7 , pp. 96-111.
- Marti Kheel: Ecofeminism and deep ecology: Reflections on identity and difference . In: Reweaving the World: The Emergence of Ecofeminism . Sierra Club Publishers, San Francisco 1990, ISBN 0-87156-623-0 , pp. 128-137.
- Marti Kheel: From Heroic to Holistic Ethics: The Ecofeminist Challenge . In: Ecofeminism: Women, Animals, Nature . Temple University Press, Philadelphia 1993, pp. 243-271.
- Marti Kheel: License to Kill: An Ecofeminist Critique of Hunters' Discourse . In: Animals and Women: Feminist Theoretical Explorations . Duke University Press, Durham 1995, ISBN 0-8223-1655-2 , pp. 85-125.
- Marti Kheel: World Day for Laboratory Animals . In: Between the Species . 13, No. 3, 2003, p. 6.
- Marti Kheel: Vegetarianism and ecofeminism: toppling patriarchy with a fork . In: Food for Thought. The Debate over Eating Meat. . Prometheus Books, Amheryst 2004, ISBN 1-59102-118-9 , pp. 327-341.
- Marti Kheel: The History of Vegetarianism . In: The Encyclopedia of World Environmental History , Volume 3. Routledge, New York 2004, ISBN 0-415-93732-9 , pp. 1273-1278.
- Marti Kheel: Direct action and the heroic ideal: An ecofeminist critique . In: Igniting a Revolution: Voices in Defense of the Earth 2006, ISBN 1-904859-56-9 , pp. 306-18.
- Marti Kheel: The Liberation of Nature . In: The feminist care tradition in animal ethics: a reader . 2007, p. 39.
- Marti Kheel: The Ecofeminist Challenge . In: Earthcare: An Anthology in Environmental Ethics . 2009, p. 264.
Web links
- Website of Feminists for Animal Rights: An Alliance Ecofeminist
- Homepage of Marti Kheel
- Presented at the Cease Animal Torture 2010 Conference, California State University
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituary
- ↑ a b Obituary
- ↑ Obituary
- ↑ Obituary for Marti's mother.
- ^ Obituary for Marti's father.
- ^ Joint obituary by Josephine Donovan , Batya Bauman , Lori Gruen and Carol J. Adams .
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SURNAME | Kheel, Marti |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American animal liberation activist, vegan researcher, and environmental ethicist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1948 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
DATE OF DEATH | November 19, 2011 |
Place of death | Greenwich (London) |