Just Life by Mary C. Rawlinson

Author:Mary C. Rawlinson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: PHI005000, Philosophy/Ethics and Moral Philosophy, SOC010000, Social Science/Feminism & Feminist Theory
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2016-03-07T16:00:00+00:00

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Eating at the Heart of Ethics

With the destruction of forests, water and land, we are losing our life-support systems. This destruction is taking place in the name of “development” and progress, but there must be something seriously wrong with a concept of progress that threatens survival itself. The violence to nature, which seems intrinsic to the dominant development model, is also associated with violence to women who depend on nature for drawing sustenance for themselves, their families, their societies. This violence against nature and women is built into the very mode of perceiving both. … Seen from the experiences of Third World women, the modes of thinking and action that pass for science and development, respectively, are not universal and humanly inclusive, as they are made out to be; modern science and development are projects of male, western origin, both historically and ideologically. They are the latest and most brutal expression of a patriarchal ideology which is threatening to annihilate nature and the entire human species.

—VANDANA SHIVA, STAYING ALIVE (2010)

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