All wrote: > If we can't look at feminine characteristics, like nurturing, to > help with the environmental philosophy, then where's the "FEM" in > ECOFEM? -snip- > Y'all (you persons? you folks?) should try to > replace the mean system that men have put in place with something > better, like the partnership model Riane Eisler talked about. Phil responds: Good point and intriquing juxtaposition. It seems that social systems supported by culture (or cultures) might be recast in more nurturing shapes and styles. (E.g. win/win vs. competition) Wouldn't that make them somewhat more like nature or the natural world? Today many Westerners (me too) turn to "unspoiled" nature to heal our fractured psychees, i.e. for nurture. So maybe nature and culture aren't (or shouldn't be) so different afterall. ps Philip T. Shepard, Professor Lyman Briggs School Michigan State University [EMAIL PROTECTED]
