Al asked, "What is feminism?" Maureen and others offer thoughtful responses. I just want to caution that most feminist seem to feel that feminism is not just one thing and certainly not monolythic (sp?). Many ecofeminists have certainly gone considerably beyond the "liberal" feminism of the 70s which I think sought mainly to include women in realms from which they had been (largely) excluded, such as science, law, medicine, sports, etc. To give credit where it is clearly due, it is surely in goodly measure due to the successes of the liberal feminist project of inclusion (in American and much of the Western world anyhow, but not so clearly or extensively in many elsewheres) that other agendas and projects (such as several ecofeminisms) have come to the fore more recently in parts of feminist literature that I'm acquainted with. It might help, in consequence of this lack of univocality for the term "feminist" if folks would try to specify somewhat what feminism they are talking about. (But hey, if you don't know, then illigitimae non carborundum (self included)). (:-) ps Philip T. Shepard, Professor Lyman Briggs School Michigan State University [EMAIL PROTECTED]
