“This is wisdom wrapped in drama.” -Tom Hayden, California state senator To this we dedicate our curiosity, our will, our courage, our silences, and our voices.
To honor the sacred is to make love possible. To honor the sacred is to create conditions in which nourishment, sustenance, habitat, knowledge, freedom, and beauty can thrive. Only in freedom can that fifth sacred thing we call spirit flourish in its full diversity. Only justice can assure balance: only ecological balance can sustain freedom. No one of us stands higher or lower than any other. Any government that fails to protect them forfeits its legitimacy.Īll people, all living things, are part of the earth life, and so are sacred. no one has the right to appropriate them or profit from them at the expense of others. To call these things sacred is to say that they have a value beyond their usefulness for human ends, that they themselves became the standards by which our acts, our economics, our laws, and our purposes must be judged.
Whether we see them as the breath, energy, blood, and body of the Mother, or as the blessed gifts of a Creator, or as symbols of the interconnected systems that sustain life, we know that nothing can live without them. In company with cultures of many different times and places, we name these things as sacred: air, fire, water, and earth. Ecofeminist theory negotiates these emerging interfaces and revives socialist concerns for equity.An epic tale of freedom and slavery, love and war, and the potential futures of humankind tells of a twenty-first century California clan caught between two clashing worlds, one based on tolerance, the other on repression.
This discussion addresses the fact that the advancement of technology may bring benefits to some but at the same time may cause natural disasters to others. The impact of industrialization and advancement of technology will be analyzed in relation to social well-being. This paper looks at how Starhawk applies an ecofeminist discourse, in her novel The Fifth Sacred Thing, in a way that reflects the capitalist patriarchal tactic of dividing and ruling lesser Others - namely women, the poor, peoples of color, and nature.
In other words, ecofeminism interrogates modern technology in order to negotiate better understanding of the domination of nature. By addressing human exploitation of nature, this paper examines how the ecofeminist strategy for change does not necessarily overlook the advancement of technology. Their main intention is to interrogate patriarchal positions that prioritize men and marginalize women and nature. Ecofeminists call for a renewed ecological consciousness by integrating politics and the discourse of an embodied materialism.
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