The Valorization of the Feminize Gender. Aspects of Our Relations towards Surroundings

Eco-feminist discourse arises to a large degree from the criticism of a western science & from the analysis of all the aspects of the relation woman -- nature. The feminists have been analyzing modern science as a version of patriarchal myth, of a so-called neutrality of values, impartiality, objectivity, pure science & innocence of mostly male practitians. Opposite to that, one of the goals of eco-feminist science is to show how present sciences & technologies are fundamentally militant. Such knowledge cannot justify the drastic destruction of vital connections between self-maintaining living systems on Earth. The female critics, mostly eco-feminists, demand the rupture of a dubious marriage between knowledge & force -- this is their imperative for sustainability. In spite of the fact that bad strategies of development which are based on western, "neutral" science, decompose indigenous knowledge of the sustainable ecological community, women from those communities are still investing their experience, sources & everyday practice to reinvent such a knowledge, especially in the Third World countries. Since women of the Third World & nature are connected with creative ways of sustaining life, then the development of the Third World is an eco-feminist project in a long-term view. References. Adapted from the source document.