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> This is in response to the request for discusssion based on class
> not gender. The request makes me uneasy. The list is ecofem. I
> have an expectation that items discussed will have some link to
> either ecology or feminism.
>
Carol, i would suggest from many of the reading I have come across in
the ecofem literature DO discuss the class nature of oppression AND the ecological
problems of the earth.
Dr. Shiva has mentioned it many times. Indeed, one can not speak of the
problems OR the solutions of e.g. the distruction of the rain forest
without including the international debt question, distribution of
wealth, and class oppression.
> Is the experience of the woman environmentalist the same as the
> experience of something else called a class? What class am I? Am
> I the working class because I work? Am I the professional class
> because I have a degree, wear a jacket and have an office? Am I
> the lower class because I don't get paid enough? Or am I some
> upper-middle-lower hybrid?
>
"class" is usually defined based on one's relationship to the wealth
created from production. I'm not too clear myself where I am as an
educator. I do know profits are generated by working men and women of the
world, but only a small percentage (the capitalist...stockholders etc)
actually keep or benefit from these profits. But the North people benefit
from the exploitation of the developing world as well.
I'm not sure I know what you mean by being uncomfortable discussing
class. Would you mind elaborating?
-michael
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Department of Biology
