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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Go to a website called veganfemenistnetwork.com She’s profiled there.


5 posted on 11/22/2014 2:05:50 AM PST by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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To: Catmom

Sorry! That’s veganfeministnetwork.com


6 posted on 11/22/2014 2:07:39 AM PST by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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To: Catmom

http://veganfeministnetwork.com/tag/cheryl-abbate/

“Dualistic Thinking in the Animal Protection Movement: A Problem for Sentience Based Accounts”

January 31, 2014 by Cheryl Abbate

Dualistic thinking is perhaps the antithesis to both feminist theory and nonhuman animal ethics.

We are familiar with a number of dualisms that infest Western patriarchal thinking: male/female; man/woman; mind/body; reason/emotion; white/other races; culture; nature; human/nature; human/animal. Through these sorts of dualisms, contrived hierarchies of power are established, where those at the top are viewed as “superior” and “dominating” while their “opposites” are granted an inferior or marginalized status. Carol Adams refers to the distinctions provided by dualistic thinking as “A and not A”; on the “A” side, there is men, mind, reason, white, culture, human beings, and so forth, while on the “Not A” side, there is women, body, emotion, black, nature, and animal.

Here is what a number of other influential thinkers have to say about dualisms:..............”


7 posted on 11/22/2014 2:13:09 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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