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E.Ecofeminism
The realization that birth control is both a feminist and an environmental
issue is one of many pattern matches which ecofeminists have found. They
follow the clue given by the phrase 'Mother Nature' to the conclusion that
women and the earth have both been victimized by the same attitudes of
subjection, rapaciousness, violation, penetration of virgin territory,
stripping, despoiling and defloration. They consider this an unfortunate
result of the separation of the sexes into godlike, transcendent man and
earthy, immanent woman, into man as mind and woman as body, found in the
JCIZ. This partition, for ecofeminists, is based on the differing positions
of the sexes with regard to childbirth; men observe, women participate.
Women also, like the earth, produce food, and can be planted with seed when
in season; hence the ancient occurrence of the term 'plowing' for intercourse.
Sexist theological Cartesianism, however, is untenable; the JCIZ's
gender-based spirit/flesh dichotomy has been an injurious illusion.
Self-aware parts of nature are still woven into the web they perceive. Mind,
whether abstract or concrete, and of either gender, is a bodily based,
earthly and evolutionarily emergent phenomenon.
The main division within ecofeminism is between 'gender' and 'nature'
ecofeminists. 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 it with an
egalitarian sexual partnership pattern, our environmental abuse will stop.
'Nature' ecofeminists believe just the opposite; that replacing the
egocentric, exploitative and uncaring attitudes underlying environmental
abuse with valuing, consequence based stewardship will repair male-female
relationships by osmosis. I think that the domination pattern is imprinted
during child-rearing, and that to end it, we have to embrace noncoercive
methods of socializing our young.
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