ECOFEMENISM KRITIK
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ECOFEMENISM KRITIK

A.) The Aff's patriarchal ideas are flawed and must be rejected
1) The basis of ecofemenism is that women and the environment are not on a parallel.
(Charlene Spretnak 1993) "The earth bofy and the womb-body run on comological time. Just as the flow of earth's life-giving waters follows lunar rhythms, so too follow the dites of a woman's womb. No culture has failed to recognize these connections or th related reats of elemental ower: that women can grow both sexes from the very flesh and transform food into milk for them, and that the earch cyclically produces vast bounty and intricate dynamics of the biosphere that allow life."
2.) There can be no solvency until the domination of both women and nature is ceased. Attempts to solve one without the other, perpetuates both problems. (Radford Reuther, New Woman/New Earth 1975) "Women must see that their can be no liberation for them and no solution to the ecological crisis within a society whose fundamental model of relationships continues to be one of domination. They must unite the demands of the women movement with those of the ecological movement to envision a radical reshaping of the basic socioeconomic relations and the underlying values of this society."
3.) By perpetuating these problems, the aff entrenches a partiarchal society. (Marti Kheel, Philadelphia: Temple Press 1993) "A glance at the vast majority of ecofeminist writings reveals, instead, a tendency to concentrate on exposing underlying mentality of exploitation that is directed against women and nature within the patriarchal world. Whereas nature ethicists have tended to concentrate on rescuing the damsel in distress ecofeminits have been more likely to ask how and why the damsel arrived at her current plight."
B.) Implications 1.) Solvency is impossible and case is turned. By attempting t solve the environment, but ignoring women's rights, the aff perpetuates both the environmenal and female degredation.
2.) You must vote on ecofeminism to stop patriarchy (Marti Khell, 93) "The emphasis on developing new ways of perceiving the world is in keeping with much of he recent work in feminist moral theory. Feminist moral theorists have begun to show that ethics is not so much the imposition of obligation and rights, but rather a natural outgrowth of how one view the self, including one's relation to the rest of the world. Before one can change the current destructive relation to natute ew must, therefore, understand the world view upon which this relation rests.

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