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@article{189373,
        author = {Dr.Naresh Kumar},
        title = {Voices of Women, Echoes of Nature: An Ecofeminist Reading of Virginia Woolf},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {7},
        pages = {5661-5665},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=189373},
        abstract = {Looking into the dynamics of Ecofeminism, critics and scholars are of the opinion that it interrogates the interconnected domination of women and nature under patriarchal and anthropocentric systems. It is noteworthy to find that Virginia Woolf did not explicitly identify herself as an ecofeminist, her writings reveal a deeper sensitivity to natural landscapes, non-human life, and the subtle politics of environmental consciousness that align closely with ecofeminist thought. This paper examines Woolf’s major fictional and non-fictional works to explore how her representations of nature intersect with questions of gender, power, and identity. Texts such as Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Waves, and A Room of One’s Own depict nature not as a passive backdrop but as a living presence that shapes human emotions, memory, and ethical awareness. Woolf’s fluid narrative techniques mirror ecological rhythms, challenging rigid binaries between culture and nature, mind and body, and male and female. Her critique of imperialism, militarism, and material progress further exposes the environmental and psychological costs of patriarchal modernity. By foregrounding women’s interiority alongside fragile natural spaces, Woolf imagines alternative modes of coexistence based on care, interdependence, and continuity rather than domination and conquest. This study argues that Woolf’s literary vision anticipates key ecofeminist concerns by articulating a relational worldview in which the liberation of women and the preservation of the natural world are ethically and imaginatively intertwined. Through an ecofeminist lens, Woolf emerges as a vital precursor to contemporary environmental feminist discourse, offering a nuanced critique of modern civilization and a poetic reimagining of humanity’s relationship with nature.},
        keywords = {Ecofeminism, nature, patriarchal, landscape, gender},
        month = {December},
        }