Feminism and Feminist Issues
- There is not just one feminism.
- Feminism is a movement to end male-gender privilege and power (i.e. sexism) which essentially involves a movement to end all systems ("isms") of unjustified power and privilege.
- What An Ecofeminist Philosophical Perspective Can Add:
- Role of oppressive conceptual frameworks in maintaining, perpetuating, and "justifying harmful and non peaceful practices towards both women and nature."
In particular, role of six (6) features:- Value-hierarchical (Up-Down) thinking
- Value (Exclusivist either or) dualisms
- Conceptions of power as "Power-over power"
- Conceptions of Up-privilege
- Conceptions of Peace as the absence of war
- A logic of domination" (Superiority justifies subordination.)
- Value-hierarchical (Up-Down) thinking
- Role of Patriarchy conceived as a Dysfunctional Social System:
- Role of oppressive conceptual frameworks in maintaining, perpetuating, and "justifying harmful and non peaceful practices towards both women and nature."
- Nature and Peace as Feminist Issues: Issues, an understanding of which helps one understand the lives of "Downs" in "Up-Down" social systems of domination through the lens of sex-gender analysis.