Original scientific paper
THE VALORIZATION OF THE FEMININE GENDER ASPECTS OF OUR RELATIONS TOWARDS SURROUNDINGS
Branka Galić
Marija Geiger
Abstract
Eco‐feminist discourse arises to a large degree from the criticism of a western science and 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 and innocence of mostly male practitians.
Opposite to that, one of the goals of eco‐feminist science is to show how present sciences and technologies are
fundamentally militant. Such knowledge can not justify the drastic destruction of vital connections between selfmaintaining
living systems on Earth. The female critics, mostly eco‐feminists, demand the rupture of a dubious marriage
between knowledge and 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 and everyday practice to reinvent such a knowledge, especially in the Third World countries. Since
women of the Third World and 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
Keywords
eco‐feminism; culture; surroundings; nature; projects of development; gender; gender classification of work; science; woman knowledge
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9150
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Publication date:
20.12.2006.
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