On Tue, 20 Sep 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, my name is Paige Brown, I have an MS in Environmental
> Economics, & @ BA's - English (where I did Feminist film studies)
> and Ag. Economics. I currently live and work in Washington DC at
> the World Resources Institute my area of work is forestry and
> global warming. I was strongly inculcated with free market
> ideology. I am interested in the connections between patriarchal
> social systems and the subjugation of women and the degradation
> of the environment.
I think there is no way of separating them; both are, in
patriarchal systems, viewed only for what man can take from them, not
what they may have to give or what man can give *back.*
> Regarding Bob A's question what is ecofem, again there seems to
> be several schools of thought. I am uncomfortable with the more
> spiritually based side of ecofeminism and am opposed to what I
> would term the essentialist expressions of ecofeminis. I think it
> is problematic to associate women with nature, (and here I am
> thinking specifically of Vandana Shiva's works). I find Shiva
> very interesting, but fundamentally disagree that women are
> "naturally" more nurturing, nature-connected etc...
Haven't read Shiva, but the point you are making is valid. Women
are no more(and probably no *less*) nuturing, connected to nature, or
whatever, than men are. Being connected to nature and being nuturing are
combinations of personality traits, possibly inborn tendencies, and
conscious will.
