On 1 May 2001, at 22:38, Karin Susan Fester wrote:
> Hi,
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> I am a student and also a relatively new member to this list, but have
> not up til this point participated in discussion. What then would be
> considered a feminist ecology? This is then different from
> ecofeminism(ecological feminism)? Can anyone give examples to
> illustrate? Thanks.
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> Karin
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There are more than one strand of ecofeminism; namely gender
ecofeminism and nature ecofeminism. They both share the view
that concepts of gender and nature are linked, with both the earth
and women being subjected to the same injurious attitudes and
actions of subjection, rapaciousness, violation, penetration of virgin
territory, stripping, despoiling and defloration, but they differ insofar
as which of these, gender or nature, they consider to be
foundational and which derivative. The gender ecofeminists believe
that male-female relationships are the source of a domination
pattern that is generalized to apply to culture-nature relationships,
and that if we replace that gender domination pattern with an
egalitarian sexual partnership pattern, our environmental abuse will
stop. The nature ecofeminists believe just the opposite; that that
replacing the egocentric, exploitative and uncaring attitudes
underlying environmental abuse with intrinsically valuing, caring and
consequence-based stewardship will repair male-female
relationships by osmosis.
I think that the domination pattern is imprinted during
childrearing, and that to end it, we have to embrace noncoercive
methods of socializing our young.
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