Volume V Special Issue IV October 2025

Name of Author : Safa Farooq

Title of the paper : Women and Nature in Climate Fiction (Cli Fi): An Ecofeminist Interpretation of Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver

Abstract: Ecofeminism is a philosophical and activist framework linking the exploitation of nature with the oppression of women and other marginalized groups. It argues that patriarchal systems that dominate women are the same ones that exploit the Earth. Ecofeminists emphasize care, interdependence, and sustainability, highlighting womens traditional ecological knowledge and roles in environmental justice movements. The ecofeminists are of the opinion that this type of thinking puts humans above nature and animals and hence oppression on them is equally justified if not more. Women and nature are related to each other, according to ecofeminists. Climate fiction Cli Fi is a literary genre that focuses on the impacts of climate change and environmental crises on human and non human life. It includes novels, short stories, and films that imagine future scenarios shaped by global warming, rising seas, resource scarcity, ecological collapse, or resilience and adaptation. Climate fiction uses storytelling to make climate change real, relatable, and emotionally engaging. Climate fiction often gives voice to women, indigenous communities, and the vulnerable groups. Ecofeminism envisions more caring, cooperative, and sustainable relationships with nature. Climate fiction provides the narrative space to imagine those futures. Both focus on ecological crises and how they are deeply connected to social inequalities gender, race, class. Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver embodies ecofeminism because it presents climate change not only as an environmental crisis but as a human, gendered experience. Dellarobias transformation mirrors the butterflies fate both reveal how womens liberation and ecological healing are interconnected.

Keywords : Ecocriticism, Ecofeminism, Ecological crises, Climate Fiction

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Page Number : 91-94