LABR 2P96 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Simone De Beauvoir, Maria Mies, Ecofeminism

• School: Brock University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABR 2P96
• Professor: Ana Isla

Document Summary

The so called development (shiva calls it maldevelopment is not an evolutionary process from a lower to a higher state but a polarizing process in which some get richer and richer because they make others poorer and poorer. Simone de beauvoir states that male self-determination (transcendence) is based on the subjection and determination-by-others of women and nature, however she hopes to reach female self-determination by following exactly the same logic, to subject some other. The ever-increasing wealth of the rich countries within a limited world is at the expense of the colonies: women, peasants, indigenous people, third world countries, and nature. Maria mies argues that the other is the fe(cid:373)ale (cid:271)od(cid:455) per(cid:272)ei(cid:448)ed as e(cid:374)e(cid:373)(cid:455), parti(cid:272)ularl(cid:455) its (cid:858)(cid:449)ild(cid:859) generative capacities. Wo(cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:859)s (cid:271)odies ha(cid:448)e (cid:271)ee(cid:374) treated as the propert(cid:455) of others, as a territor(cid:455) o(cid:272)(cid:272)upied (cid:271)(cid:455) (cid:373)e(cid:374) i(cid:374) general (by the oppressive male-female relations), statesmen (the institution of family), and churchmen (opposing abortion)