Haley Ellingson’s Reviews > The Eros of Everyday Life: Essays on Ecology, Gender and Society > Status Update

"In older cultures, identity has been less an assertion of independence than an experience of interdependence. One is dependent for coming into existence not only on a mother and a father but on an intricate web of life...when this connection is sacrificed for the illusion of independence.. one can witness the birth of fierce nationalism and fundamentalisms of all kinds."