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Subject: Re: Get to the root of the problem!
> From:http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/7169/Page4.html
> E.Ecofeminism
>
Marguerite,
Glad you like my work! Joe Dees (Salamantis)
> 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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