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ARTICLES What it's like to be a Girl in an Anarchist Boy's Club - Alphabet Threat Our Bodies, Our Lives! Let Patriarchy Burn - Do or Die Women and the Spectacle - Howard J. Ehrlich (ed) Feminism as Anarchism - Lynne Farrow The Revolt of Adam & Eve: A Green Anarcha-Feminist Perspective - Witch Hazel No Authority But Oneself: Only a Tsunami Will Do: For A Post-Feminist Anarchy - Rita-Katrina Andrews Feminism: A Male Anarchist's Perspective - Pendleton Vandiver Anarcha-feminism and Animal Liberation Patriarchy, Civilization, and the Origins of Gender - John Zerzan BOOKS Quiet Rumors: An Anarcha-Feminist Reader - Dark Star Collective Feminism is for Everybody - bell hooks Women and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her - Susan Griffin The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution & Earthcare; - Carolyn Merchant Ecofeminist Philosophy - Karen Warren ONLINE |
Toward the beginning in the shift to civilization, an early product of domestication is patriarchy: the formalization of male domination and the development of institutions which reinforce it. By creating false gender distinctions and divisions between men and women, civilization, again, creates an "other" that can be objectified, controlled, dominated, utilized, and commodified. This runs parallel to the domestication of plants for agriculture and animals for herding, in general dynamics, and also in specifics like the control of reproduction. As in other realms of social stratification, roles are assigned to women in order to establish a very rigid and predictable order, beneficial to hierarchy. Woman come to be seen as property, no different then the crops in the field or the sheep in the pasture. Ownership and absolute control, whether of land, plants, animals, slaves, children, or women, is part of the established dynamic of civilization. Patriarchy demands the subjugation of the feminine and the usurpation of nature, propelling us toward total annihilation. It defines power, control and dominion over wildness, freedom, and life. Patriarchal conditioning dictates all of our interactions; with ourselves, our sexuality, our relationships to each other, and our relationship to nature. It severely limits the spectrum of possible experience. The interconnected relationship between the logic of civilization and patriarchy is undeniable; for thousands of years they have shaped the human experience on every level, from the institutional to the personal, while they have devoured life. To be against civilization, one must be against patriarchy; and to question patriarchy, it seems, one must also put civilization into question.
We do not view feminism as a separate struggle or a single issue. Patriarchy is part and parcel of Civilization. The struggle against patriarchy is not only a women’s struggle. Patriarchal conditioning dictates all our interactions; with ourselves, our sexuality, our relationships to each other, and our relationship to nature. It severely limits the spectrum of possible experience. We must also overcome patriarchal colonization of our own psyches and break the cycle of sexism in our own lives and interactions.