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Ecofeminism represented in Art             I personally love nature. I was raised in a family that went camping, hiking and on day road trips to different places in nature. My mom used to take me and my younger sister to pick flowers and explore. These experiences help me to understand ecofeminism. Although I understand ecofeminism, I do not agree with all its points. Ecofeminism shows women as taken advantage of and used, much like our earth. It blames the destruction of earth and degrading of women both to a male dominated society.   Upon searching for art on ecofeminism, I became concerned because nothing was really capturing the meaning of ecofeminism to me. For one many of the images were of beautiful naked women. Although the art is beautiful, I felt like it focused on the body of them woman, opposed to the woman as a whole. In my opinion, I dislike that the female body is always being sexualized within media. To me these art pieces feel the same. In media w