29 International Journal of Emerging Trends in Social Sciences Vol. 1, No.1, pp. 29-36 DOI: 10.20448/2001.11.29.36 Ecofeminist Pragmatism of Female Founders in Sociology as Source of Women Empowerment in Academia and Society Lejla Mušić 1 1 Department of Sociology, Faculty of Political Sciences, Sarajevo. Abstract First female philosopher Hypathia and her tragic death is less known while as Minoan era of governing the island Crete represents the egalitarian society, in which females were equal as men, in profession, life and family. It is necessary to conduct the deconstruction and demystification of patriarchal approaches to society and education, in order to form contemporary sociological theory involving the female authors and their accomplishments. The eco feminist movement was founded during the radical and turbulent social changes of the early 1980s. The aftermath of war, global environmental movements and minority rights movements have joined forces to create significant subversion and an imitative position towards the patriarchal based theories. Major sociologist author and pragmatist, Nobel Prize Winner, who gained doctoral degree from Yale University and organized Hull House project for investigating the immigrant behaviour, influenced the eco feminist pragmatism of the Charlotte P. Gilman, and Caroline Bartlett Crane. This position is later on found in works of famous neo eco feminist and sociologists such as Ariell Salleh, Marija Geiger Zeman, Ivanka Buzov, and their ancestors, authors from different fields such as Val Plumwood, Karen J. Warren, Martha Kheel, Yenestra King, Françoise d‟Eaubonne and Vandana Shiva. These authors have written about the ecological feminist movement, drawing attention to the need for scientific cognition of the way in which the logic of domination and oppression of women and nature is institutionalized. T is necessary to conduct the deconstruction and demystification of patriarchal approaches to society and education, in order to form contemporary sociological theory involving the female authors and their accomplishments. Keywords: Sister founders in sociology Eco feminism Eco feminist pragmatism Being written out. Licensed: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Publisher: Scientific Publishing Institute 1. Introduction Deegan (1990) states: “Even though there are more than 52 women considered to be founders of sociology, they are still not recognized in sociology”. Mary Jo Deegan wrote referate in early 1980-ties Early Women Sociologists and the American Sociological Society :The Patterns of Exclusion and Participation, The American Sociologist, 1981, Vol.16, February :14-24. and investigates the early women sociologists position in sociology and in ASA organisation. Questions that were raised by Deegann (1981) were following: “1. How and why did this men keep women out of the organisation(ASA). 2. Which women participated in spite of this obstacles?, 3. Were there efforts to open the organisation for female participation?, 4. What happened if this efforts were made?”. Rather to remove obstacles of gender based marginalisation, female sociologists decided to form the coin term sisters founders in sociology as opposition to founding fathers in sociology, emphasizing the importance of sisterhood in discipline rather than motherhood in disciplines, therefore also marking the places of exclusion of women in sociology. Sister‟s founders in sociology are as a coin term formed by Mary Jo Deegan, in order to explain, de marginalisation of female stream sociological theory. Even though there are more than 52 women considered being founders of sociology, they are still not recognized in sociology, Aristotle‟s distinction between male/female. Shipley represents the key moment to ideological foundation of the women exclusion from academia and public life, because their identification with natural and irrational. Small Albion advocates the doctrine of separate spheres believing that men and women are different distinctly,