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Ecofeminism
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In fact, the advocates of People's Park had asserted another version of what is probably America's oldest and most cherished fantasy: a daily reality of harmony between man and nature based on an experience of the land land as essentially feminine - that is not simply the land as mother, but the land as woman, the total female principle of gratification - enclosing the individual in an environment of receptivity, repose, and painless and integral satisfaction.
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― Lay of the Land: Metaphor as Experience and History in American Life and Letters
― Lay of the Land: Metaphor as Experience and History in American Life and Letters
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Cette compulsion à produire semble bien avoir amené le reste de la vie sur Terre au bord de l'anéantissement. Selon O'Brien, la conscience aliénante des hommes a inventé des 'principes de continuité' compensatoires tels que Dieu, l'Etat, l'Histoire et aujourd'hui les Sciences et la Technologie pour tenter de surmonter sa fracture empirique vis à vis du processus vital et du 'temps naturel'. La gynécologie moderne, la fécondation in vitro, la maternité de substitution et les recherches en biotech
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― Ecofeminism As Politics: Nature, Marx and the Postmodern
― Ecofeminism As Politics: Nature, Marx and the Postmodern
