Roundtable
Feminism and Revolution
An exchange on the essay Feminism and Revolution: Looking Back, Looking Ahead
Anamaria Aristizabal
Ecovillages provide micro level examples of the evolution towards reaching across divides and building egalitarian communities.
Lourdes Benería
Feminism has differed from place to place and era to era, but women’s ways of knowing, doing, relating, and caring are essential to a Great Transition.
Susan Butler
The economic transition we need will be driven by a women’s movement embracing life and promoting the decentralized economic practices that nurture it.
Kavita Byrd
The feminist question, at its core, is about the difference between a system based on separation and domination and one based on interconnection and communion.
Arturo Escobar
Challenging colonization and patriarchy requires a recommunalizing politics and a respect for the radical interconnectedness of all life.
David Fell
We need strategies for overcoming the inevitable fierce resistance to systemic change, and part of that must entail men being better allies.
Miki Kashtan
Patriarchy is bad for everyone, including men, and a world where attending to needs is the organizing principle would liberate us all.
Khawar Mumtaz
Global crises like climate change disproportionately impact women, and we must factor this lived experience into our work and our strategies.
Noha Tarek
When we talk about patriarchy vs. feminism, we are talking about two opposing worldviews, not men vs. women.
Julie Matthaei
Julie Matthaei addresses points raised by the contributors to this roundtable discussion.
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Core GT Texts
The emergence of an organic planetary civilization has become both possible and necessary. What would it look like? How do we get there?
The classic essay on our planetary moment, global scenarios, and pathways to a just, fulfilling, and sustainable future.
