Posted on 11/17/2022 6:12:05 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
While the discourse on gender and climate change has dominated the international affairs sector especially in the last couple of years, the connections made between gender, environment and climate change are not new. The various strands of ecofeminism made these connections from the 1970s, and scholars in the humanities have vociferously written and spoken about it since.
The connections between gender, the environment and climate change operate on several levels. At the linguistic level, ecofeminists have long drawn parallels between the patriarchal and exploitative language used in militaristic "conquering" of the land, "plundering" the earth, and the conquering and plundering of women's bodies during gender-based violence against women, sexual assault and rape.
The connections are also seen on another level through ripple effects of climate disasters such as droughts and/or lack of access to clean drinking water, exemplified by the phenomenon of water wives in Maharashtra, India. This is a practice of polygamy where a man marries multiple women due to the access to clean water that they bring along with them when they get married, and is still happening today.
As postcolonial ecofeminists have long cautioned, the international community needs to ensure that in championing the gender and climate change connections and putting women at the forefront of this, it should not perpetuate harmful stereotypes that relegate the Third World woman as repositories of care for the environment, thus romanticizing a "natural" affinity for care work.
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A faux intellectual article.
Chomsky would be proud; this is “baffle them with BS” stuff.
I could look at that for 2 maybe 3 hours.
Piled higher and deeper
Which is why women do not need advancement. We are already at their mercy for eff’s sakes!
Someday, leftists will get the world they want. They ain’t gonna like it
And since the rest of us will be part of it neither woll We like it
We MUST keep fighting.
It boggles the mind that people get paid to write this nonsense...
I was raised to never touch a woman in anger....but now days, I’ll beat the living hell out of anything that violently approaches me.....not sure it’s truly a woman
The press have their marching orders “go full out on c,image change so,that soemthing will get passed in the next 2 years”
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“ While the discourse on gender and climate change has dominated the international affairs sector especially in the last couple of years”
Maybe in your house….
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