Janet Biehl

Janet Biehl ( b. 1953 ) is an American, a former anarchist theorist of eco - anarchism and social ecofeminism, which today is committed to social democracy. With the visit of the Institute for Social Ecology in 1986 working with Murray Bookchin began.

Political action

From 1987 to 2000 Janet Biehl and Murray Bookchin published Green Perspectives, a newspaper for the socio-ecological movement, which was later renamed the Left Green Perspectives.

Biehl wrote books and articles, which dealt with the ideas of libertarian communalism, social ecology and ecofeminism of. Her book The Politics of Social Ecology Bookchin's ideas took the face-to -face democracy together.

In 2001 she retired from government policy in order to actively take care of the aged Murray Bookchin, who died in 2006.

2011 Janet Biehl explained that they had returned since the late 90s to their "pre- 1987 political identity " that would designated by the left as social democratic.

Publications

  • Finding our Way. Rethinking Ecofeminist Politics ( 1991)
  • Ecofascism: Lessons from the German Experience ( 1996) ISBN 1-873176-73-2
  • The Politics of Social Ecology: Libertarian Municipalism (1997) ISBN 1-55164-100-3
  • The Murray Bookchin Reader ( 1997) ISBN 0-304-33874-5
  • The social ecofeminism and other essays Nevertheless Verlag, Grafenau 1991, ISBN 3-922209-34-3
  • The libertarian communalism. The political practice of social ecology, Still Verlag, Grafenau 1998, ISBN 3-931786-07-2
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