I approach this subject with interest but entirely from a lay person's per- spective. I work in publishing in an office environment which is very much a glass ceiling sort of place and if you can't put in the hours because you were so stupid as to have a kid, well, what do you expect. I live in a city which is slowly being turned into another Malibu or San Jose--all the nice little fields are being bulldozed, the big cedars and firs pushed into a pile and burnt, not even distributed to the poor for firewood or being used for lumber, just wasted so some developer can come in and make a lot of money. So all I know about ecofeminism is what I see and feel--that it is really hard to feel valued as a woman unless I put aside certain aspects of myself and "get tough and get ahead" and that coincidentally the woods that I love and value are considered to be a similarly worthless or at least unmarketable commodity. I am 30, college-educated, was going to go to med school until I oops got pregnant and chose to keep my baby. Incidentally, the birth of my child was pretty intensely spiritual and affirmed a part of me I never realized was good--so although I don't think my sole purpose is to have babies, I think it's pretty great and don't knock it til you've tried it. Well, enough, I have to get back to work. Just call me "fed up in washington state"
