“In an ecofeminist society, no one would have power over anyone else, because there would be an understanding that we’re all part of the interconnected web of life.”
I remember when the ecology movement first surfaced in the early ’70s. I was already active in the women’s wovement, and I wasn’t exactly comfortable with all the rhetoric about the plight of Mother Earth—as if the entire planet were a damsel in distress. Nor did I want to be anybody’s earth mother. In fact, a major focus of my life was to avoid drowning in full time motherhood.
There’s also a relatively small but growing movement of women who are working for ecological concerns specifically as feminists. They organize demonstrations at missile bases and nuclear power plants, but what sets them apart is their theoretical work, collectively known as “itself, Women with all their messy childbearing faculties are associated with being more material and hence less valuable, according to Griffin. But the solution isn’t to promote women to the exalted male realm. “The split itself needs to be healed.”
“There’s a principle involved,” said Ingrid Newkirk, national director of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. “If you’re against violence, domination, slavery, and the abuse of the vulnerable, then you’re for women’s rights, and you’re not a racist, and you’re for animal rights.
Los Angeles therapist Deena Metzger, who had a mastectomy several years ago, believes an ecofeminist consciousness could transform medicine. Radiation and chemotherapy, she points out, are natural responses from a society that thinks in terms of chemical warfare and nuclear power; perhaps a mindset less attuned to “conquering” cancer would have invented a different and better treatment.
Henderson believes that economists should junk the GNP as the sole indicator of reality, and instead augment it with measurements like “how well is the average person housed? What’s the access to clean air? What about education and safe streets and political participation? We have to put money into trying to reverse the damage that’s been done to the layers that no one was concerned with before.
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