A marriage of ecology and feminism. In a pleasingly frank paragraph, Mary Mellor (1992) Capitalism Nature Socialism, 3, 2, 43 writes that ecofeminism cannot be easily defined, reflecting the fact that it draws on many feminisms, from New Age thinkers to socialists. Nightingale in B. Warf (2010) is bolder: ‘ecofeminism is the study of women’s connections to nature and how they inspire particular forms of environmental activism, stewardship, and spiritual attachments to Earth’.