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Ecofeminism and Nonhumans: Continuity, Difference, Dualism, and Domination

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Ronnie Zoe Hawkins
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Abstract

The dualistic structures permeating western culture emphasize radical discontinuity between humans and nonhumans, but receptive attention to nonhuman others discloses both continuity and difference prevailing between other forms of life and our own. Recognizing that agency and subjectivity abound within nature alerts us to our potential for dominating and oppressing nonhuman others, as individuals and as groups. Reciprocally, seeing ourselves as biological beings may facilitate reconstructing our social reality to undo such destructive relationships.

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Hypatia , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , Winter 1998 , pp. 158 - 197
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Copyright © 1998 by Hypatia, Inc.

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