Karen Warren Essay

The first section I chose was 37. The Power and the Promise of Ecological Feminism by Karen Warren. Reading Warren’s essay, I too think that ecofeminism applies to both the controlling of women and nature. I came to this conclusion considering how these two concepts are connected and show similar characteristics.

Warren argues in this essay that there are connections between the “domination of women” and the “domination of nature,” which is the meaning of ecofeminism (Pojman, Pojman, & McShane, 2016, p. 390). She also argues that the patriarchy oppresses both women and the environment through “a logic of domination,” and that feminist thought should expand to include ecofeminism (Pojman, Pojman, & McShane, 2016, p. 390). I agree with this reasoning. Historically, there has been inequality and a controlling attitude toward both women and the environment. For example, back then women were subjected to only certain

It must be: opposed to anything that advances a logic of domination, contextualist, pluralistic rather than unitary, able to change over time, inclusive of oppressed persons, not unbiased but “better biased,” accepting of misrepresented values like love, friendship, and trust, and able to recognize what it is to be human and to engage in ethical decision making (Pojman, Pojman, & McShane, 2016, p. 399). Ecofeminism provides a framework for both a feminist and environmental ethic. It satisfies all of the requirements she lists and embraces feminism while also ensuring that women do not perpetuate domination on the environment. I find Warren's requirements for a feminist ethic to both equality-based and future based. I don't disagree with any of these requirements and find them to be representative of what we would like a society's views to consist of. I think Warren put forth some strong arguments on ecofeminism which I agreed with and found to be similar to my own views on the