I will fully admit that many of the concepts that Patti Lather brought up went far over my head. There were far too many -isms that I'm not familiar, I guess. There were a couple I understood, of course. I mean, she mentioned the classic feminism, which is something I've had a lot of experience in,
I consider myself a feminist, and more specifically, and eco-feminist. This is where I was able to make a few connections between our class and the lecture. In essence, eco-feminism is the bridge between feminism and ecology. There are many connections between women and nature -- think "Mother Nature." Because we view the earth to be a female figure, society feels as though we can repress and exploit it.
Think of it like this: Women are generally treated as inferior to men, and nature is treated as inferior to "Man." I think this is why eco-feminism is so appealing to me. The duality and the parallels of it is very interesting. I'd suggest any ESCI 302 folks to look more into it -- it's probably something that might appeal to you as much as it does to me.
My drawing for this one is fairly straight forward. I put a poorly drawn version of the earth in the center of the trans symbol. I understand that the symbol can be seen as problematic -- adhering to a gender-binary, and all -- but hey, that happens.
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