What are your reactions to your GTP
reading? What are your preliminary ideas for leading a class meeting
focused on this topic?
Ecofemism: Our roots and Flowering
This article made me genuinely angry.
The main reasons this article bothers me
is being it uses a wishy-washy version of spirituality and it accuses men of
causing everything wrong with our society. Society has its problems but both
genders are part of it. She picks and chooses which values she wants from societies
long before us that are either little known (Gaia and goddess type religons) or
socieities that used women as social and political tools (medieval Europe). For
example, Spretnak espunges the values of European fertility rituals where women
circled the fields and transferred their fertility to the field. She says that
the men and women of that time participated in the cycles of nature
with respect and gratitude. They may have respected nature, but women had very
few rights back then and for a long time serfdom was the norm.
It seems to me that all she values about
women is their vaginas and potential to have children. She doesn’t mention anything
else about women at all.
Valuing ‘The Godess’ as a religion instead
of 70s hipsters garbling the archeological facts about an ancient religion and
morphing it to fit their needs while using its age to being authority to their
drug fuelled
This article says that agricultural and reproductive
developments (instead of allowing society to bring more food to more people or allowing people who would
otherwise be infertile to have children) are all about taking fertility away
from the earth and man.
In her
article, Ynestra King hits the nail on
the head with another problem with this article. The patriarchal society is the
one that assigned women as closer to nature. This is not a natural concept.
Ughhhhhhhhh I can’t even. This article is everything that bothers me about life.
Off the top of my head
for my project I want to stay as far away from this article and its ideas as possible. I would rather talk
about equality and how we can bring
better ecological technologies to women and men in the third world.
I like that you have such a deep reaction to this article and are able to explain how this is a more antiquated view of feminism in that "It seems to me that all she values about women is their vaginas and potential to have children. She doesn’t mention anything else about women at all. " I think thats a valid point and can show how the nature of feminism and womens equality issues have transformed over time.
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