Wednesday, March 31, 2010
3rd Birthday Invitation Letter
Care Life and earth: a view from women
In all times and in all cultures women have taken care of human life, an activity without which it is not possible. These duties of care, we have given the name of sustainability tasks of human life because they are essential to the survival of the human species, but in reality is very different tasks in their nature and character. The human (both biological and social) of these tasks, the care provided throughout the life cycle of humans and derived from the fact of having a body that is born, grows old and dies. Many times we refer to tasks that are monotonous and repetitive acts but necessary as preparing meals, washing, cleaning, etc., rather own domestic work but also the relationships that accompany such care.
These tasks include long-term care made during childhood and through which human offspring born in a total state of helplessness and dependency can get to survive and overcome humanized animals. In the human evolutionary process of the most significant fact that distinguishes humans from other animals and even other anthropoid primates such as gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans is exactly the fact that the only species in which long-term care are made in the offspring. This is a consequence due to the fact the reduction of pelvic canal in females as an adaptation to the standing position, which has hindered the delivery in women and premature births caused when fetal neuronal maturation has not been completed. The price to pay for the acquisition of the standing position is the birth of immature offspring born before finishing his encephalization, with the need to be cared for after birth, but in turn this has been the cause of the large human brain development adult who comes to quadruple their volume compared to the newborn brain, whereas in other primates such as chimpanzees if it does not pass or twice as an adult.
The conflict between locomotion and brain power was resolved by extending the growth rate of fetal brain in a neonate after delivery in up to 12 months. This solution assumes that children are born with a great helplessness and immaturity neuromotor giving the human race a long period of care and learning unique among all animal species and has been vitally important in the intellectual and cultural development of mankind.
The extension of the development of a fetus outside the womb and innovation of childhood (period between 2 and 7 years) adaptive trait of the human species has a long learning period in which to transmit knowledge and cultural patterns and language, so that care is of vital importance in the intellectual and cultural development of humanity and without it no there neuronal maturation and transmission of culture and civilization so. Therefore, this unique characteristic among animals is going to be allowing a newborn child to get to transform himself. Ecofeminist
Ynestra As King says: "Mankind emerges from non-human nature, ie the education process without socializing a human infant and undifferentiated that person becomes adult is the bridge between nature and culture. "
care of human nature also involve providing special attention to the most destitute of the group as sick and elderly to enable them to survive as evidenced by the discovery of ancient human fossils at Dmanisi (Georgia), about 1.6 -1 8 million years, which can already be seen to have survived the disease and physical decay because of the care delivered by other members of the community. Generally, this care means meeting the needs of the bodies natural way for life to continue, which means ordinary things like cooking, but necessary, feeding, washing, cleaning, follow ... or worry about it all work.
In contrast, eminently social care are those that allow people not only to survive but to achieve levels of existence in terms of adequacy and equity with the rest of humanity as access to water, food, energy, housing, education and health. Therefore, this care includes care for the communities at risk of exclusion due to poverty or affected by the harsh climate, drought, famine, war, disaster or displacement caused by neoliberal policies impoverished countries. But also satisfy biological needs but not necessarily imply a level of being worthy (we refer to affective needs, cultural or psychological, including those involving the well-being for mankind.)
In all these situations, we know that women have played a key role in the management of scarcity and conflict resolution with its special relationship with the corporeal, due to the division of labor by gender and not their particular biology.
And there is one aspect of ecological or nature in connection with such care arising from the fact that our fate is interconnected with the biosphere. The recognition of this dependence requires us to care for and support the existence of Gaia as a regulatory mechanism of the biosphere that gives primacy to life above all other characteristics. In the vision of Gaia Lovelock, Margulis is considered the planet Earth as a result of the action of living beings, both in the present atmosphere and hydrosphere on, or materials of the earth's crust, and not vice versa, ie it is not that special conditions of the earth have allowed the development and evolution of life on earth, but that is life who has shaped the development and evolution of the right conditions for life on earth. Abuse and exploitation we have made of natural resources as if they were unlimited has led to a situation where we have jeopardized our stay on Earth, because as you said the ecologist Ramon Margalef: "Gaia can do without the human species if not respect but we can not do without it "so take care of the Earth is also concern the survival and sustainability of the human species.
analogy between EXPLOITATION OF THE NATURE AND WORK OF WOMEN As Marilyn Waring says in his book If women counted: "The treatment given to mother earth and given to the women and children within the national accounting system are multi-core parallelism, pays no attention to the preservation of natural resources or the work of most of its inhabitants or unpaid work of reproduction of human life itself and to its maintenance and care. The system can not respond to values \u200b\u200bthat are denied recognition. "
Indeed, timber, coal or oil has a lot to do with the exploitation of women's work and is something that has been appropriated by the capitalist-patriarchal society, not evaluate or solar energy that production depends on all life on our planet and So all of our fossil resources nor the energy of women linked to the care of human life neither displayed internalized in GDP, then there is no point of view of our economy.
In this sense, the Northern countries are owed a debt to the developing countries as a result of rape to which have been submitted by the colonizing countries that routinely have taken all their riches, and those that followed later, and which have led to deforestation and biodiversity loss on their crops to pay the foreign debt, imposed by our model of development. This debt from ecology and ecological economics has been attributed the name of ecological debt. With this name is trying to subvert the concept of external debt which is recognized as being the developing countries which owe something to the developed countries through loans made by the IMF and World Bank regardless of the great interest obtained by the latter and the impoverishment of communities in developing countries caused by the implementation of structural adjustment policies which led to the deterioration of the few existing social policies, by cutting public spending budgets.
Similarly, we can say that humanity has contracted a debt to women for the work of care and life support made throughout the entire cycle of human life in all societies, as communities move forward in conflict or hunger, a task that exalts the human species and without which our world becomes a jungle without solidarity, which are implanted the mechanisms of individual salvation.
And as the payment of external debt does not recognize the historic debt owed by the North to the South, the payment of this debt has nothing to do with the policies of equality, since it does not take into account the debt of a symbolic against women.
ECOLOGICAL CRISIS AND CRISIS OF CARE We have intensified the pace of exploitation and have created an ecological crisis and a crisis of care in this intractable economic model predator and patriarchal. Our system of exploitation of nature simply based on the extraction, although we call euphemistically production has hit bottom: after years of continuous extraction, oil is running low or at least cheap oil. Now every time will have to invest more effort and technology to extract what is left once we reached peak oil, so it will become increasingly expensive. Reduce consumption North and develop renewable energies such as those arising from the use of solar and wind energy already at this time can meet our most basic needs should be one of our most pressing priorities that only political blindness or the interests of monopoly power or derivatives in the oil sector prevented launch.
Moreover, our economy based solely on fossil fuels palaeoeconomy is coming to an end with the problems created with the CO2 emissions that are accelerating climate change at an unprecedented rate, making the survival of the human species in dignity and fairness is threatened. And, as always, are the people developing the first to suffer the consequences of drought and scarcity, when converted into biofuel monoculture areas with high risks of ecological vulnerability of ecosystems to reduce the diversity of its crops for the sole purpose of not giving up nothing and continue our pattern of consumption in the developed world.
North Our food policy is causing severe problems in the South by forcing many people to abandon traditional crops for food commodities and to give up its food. Having to compete with imported products Northern countries produced at subsidized prices. This is a consequence of the implementation of neoliberal policies of the WTO, policies that have led to the displacement of peasants s living in a subsistence economy to the crowded and impoverished cities in the country, entering the infernal cycle of poverty. Among
Est @ s, women are the most affected as they are the ones that have always been the sustenance of life or, as he called Maria Mies in the production of life, "because they not only consume and collect it grew in nature but that makes things grow "to keep and feed the family. Hence, most involvement of women in this movement for food sovereignty, such as the World March of Women.
As for what we have called crisis of care, at the time that women, with their massive influx into the labor market have failed to take a greater or lesser extent this unpaid care work, has created a vacuum in the coverage of this service that the system has not covered in any way, thus beginning to create problems of underserved people in our society (especially the elderly and children), a situation that we call care crisis, insoluble in this system of unequal distribution of care work. We have also
transferred the problem to the South, where more and more problems will be exacerbated by neglect of children and adults, by causing a migration of caregivers, particularly women who leave their young children and families to meet our own, or Whether the neglect in the best case, we have moved to the South, resulting in what we call globalization of care work.
find another model could be more harmonious with nature and between human and human, regardless of gender or place of origin that respects the natural assets and shared care work between men and women make our model more sustainable because, as our colleague Anna Bosch said: "modern societies have forgotten that the basic condition to continue to exist as humanity is rooted to the earth to live and manifest a body."
The conflict between locomotion and brain power was resolved by extending the growth rate of fetal brain in a neonate after delivery in up to 12 months. This solution assumes that children are born with a great helplessness and immaturity neuromotor giving the human race a long period of care and learning unique among all animal species and has been vitally important in the intellectual and cultural development of mankind.
The extension of the development of a fetus outside the womb and innovation of childhood (period between 2 and 7 years) adaptive trait of the human species has a long learning period in which to transmit knowledge and cultural patterns and language, so that care is of vital importance in the intellectual and cultural development of humanity and without it no there neuronal maturation and transmission of culture and civilization so. Therefore, this unique characteristic among animals is going to be allowing a newborn child to get to transform himself. Ecofeminist
Ynestra As King says: "Mankind emerges from non-human nature, ie the education process without socializing a human infant and undifferentiated that person becomes adult is the bridge between nature and culture. "
care of human nature also involve providing special attention to the most destitute of the group as sick and elderly to enable them to survive as evidenced by the discovery of ancient human fossils at Dmanisi (Georgia), about 1.6 -1 8 million years, which can already be seen to have survived the disease and physical decay because of the care delivered by other members of the community. Generally, this care means meeting the needs of the bodies natural way for life to continue, which means ordinary things like cooking, but necessary, feeding, washing, cleaning, follow ... or worry about it all work.
In contrast, eminently social care are those that allow people not only to survive but to achieve levels of existence in terms of adequacy and equity with the rest of humanity as access to water, food, energy, housing, education and health. Therefore, this care includes care for the communities at risk of exclusion due to poverty or affected by the harsh climate, drought, famine, war, disaster or displacement caused by neoliberal policies impoverished countries. But also satisfy biological needs but not necessarily imply a level of being worthy (we refer to affective needs, cultural or psychological, including those involving the well-being for mankind.)
In all these situations, we know that women have played a key role in the management of scarcity and conflict resolution with its special relationship with the corporeal, due to the division of labor by gender and not their particular biology.
And there is one aspect of ecological or nature in connection with such care arising from the fact that our fate is interconnected with the biosphere. The recognition of this dependence requires us to care for and support the existence of Gaia as a regulatory mechanism of the biosphere that gives primacy to life above all other characteristics. In the vision of Gaia Lovelock, Margulis is considered the planet Earth as a result of the action of living beings, both in the present atmosphere and hydrosphere on, or materials of the earth's crust, and not vice versa, ie it is not that special conditions of the earth have allowed the development and evolution of life on earth, but that is life who has shaped the development and evolution of the right conditions for life on earth. Abuse and exploitation we have made of natural resources as if they were unlimited has led to a situation where we have jeopardized our stay on Earth, because as you said the ecologist Ramon Margalef: "Gaia can do without the human species if not respect but we can not do without it "so take care of the Earth is also concern the survival and sustainability of the human species.
analogy between EXPLOITATION OF THE NATURE AND WORK OF WOMEN As Marilyn Waring says in his book If women counted: "The treatment given to mother earth and given to the women and children within the national accounting system are multi-core parallelism, pays no attention to the preservation of natural resources or the work of most of its inhabitants or unpaid work of reproduction of human life itself and to its maintenance and care. The system can not respond to values \u200b\u200bthat are denied recognition. "
Indeed, timber, coal or oil has a lot to do with the exploitation of women's work and is something that has been appropriated by the capitalist-patriarchal society, not evaluate or solar energy that production depends on all life on our planet and So all of our fossil resources nor the energy of women linked to the care of human life neither displayed internalized in GDP, then there is no point of view of our economy.
In this sense, the Northern countries are owed a debt to the developing countries as a result of rape to which have been submitted by the colonizing countries that routinely have taken all their riches, and those that followed later, and which have led to deforestation and biodiversity loss on their crops to pay the foreign debt, imposed by our model of development. This debt from ecology and ecological economics has been attributed the name of ecological debt. With this name is trying to subvert the concept of external debt which is recognized as being the developing countries which owe something to the developed countries through loans made by the IMF and World Bank regardless of the great interest obtained by the latter and the impoverishment of communities in developing countries caused by the implementation of structural adjustment policies which led to the deterioration of the few existing social policies, by cutting public spending budgets.
Similarly, we can say that humanity has contracted a debt to women for the work of care and life support made throughout the entire cycle of human life in all societies, as communities move forward in conflict or hunger, a task that exalts the human species and without which our world becomes a jungle without solidarity, which are implanted the mechanisms of individual salvation.
And as the payment of external debt does not recognize the historic debt owed by the North to the South, the payment of this debt has nothing to do with the policies of equality, since it does not take into account the debt of a symbolic against women.
ECOLOGICAL CRISIS AND CRISIS OF CARE We have intensified the pace of exploitation and have created an ecological crisis and a crisis of care in this intractable economic model predator and patriarchal. Our system of exploitation of nature simply based on the extraction, although we call euphemistically production has hit bottom: after years of continuous extraction, oil is running low or at least cheap oil. Now every time will have to invest more effort and technology to extract what is left once we reached peak oil, so it will become increasingly expensive. Reduce consumption North and develop renewable energies such as those arising from the use of solar and wind energy already at this time can meet our most basic needs should be one of our most pressing priorities that only political blindness or the interests of monopoly power or derivatives in the oil sector prevented launch.
Moreover, our economy based solely on fossil fuels palaeoeconomy is coming to an end with the problems created with the CO2 emissions that are accelerating climate change at an unprecedented rate, making the survival of the human species in dignity and fairness is threatened. And, as always, are the people developing the first to suffer the consequences of drought and scarcity, when converted into biofuel monoculture areas with high risks of ecological vulnerability of ecosystems to reduce the diversity of its crops for the sole purpose of not giving up nothing and continue our pattern of consumption in the developed world.
North Our food policy is causing severe problems in the South by forcing many people to abandon traditional crops for food commodities and to give up its food. Having to compete with imported products Northern countries produced at subsidized prices. This is a consequence of the implementation of neoliberal policies of the WTO, policies that have led to the displacement of peasants s living in a subsistence economy to the crowded and impoverished cities in the country, entering the infernal cycle of poverty. Among
Est @ s, women are the most affected as they are the ones that have always been the sustenance of life or, as he called Maria Mies in the production of life, "because they not only consume and collect it grew in nature but that makes things grow "to keep and feed the family. Hence, most involvement of women in this movement for food sovereignty, such as the World March of Women.
As for what we have called crisis of care, at the time that women, with their massive influx into the labor market have failed to take a greater or lesser extent this unpaid care work, has created a vacuum in the coverage of this service that the system has not covered in any way, thus beginning to create problems of underserved people in our society (especially the elderly and children), a situation that we call care crisis, insoluble in this system of unequal distribution of care work. We have also
transferred the problem to the South, where more and more problems will be exacerbated by neglect of children and adults, by causing a migration of caregivers, particularly women who leave their young children and families to meet our own, or Whether the neglect in the best case, we have moved to the South, resulting in what we call globalization of care work.
find another model could be more harmonious with nature and between human and human, regardless of gender or place of origin that respects the natural assets and shared care work between men and women make our model more sustainable because, as our colleague Anna Bosch said: "modern societies have forgotten that the basic condition to continue to exist as humanity is rooted to the earth to live and manifest a body."
BIBLIOGRAPHY Bermudez de Castro, José M ª:
The boy in the Gran Dolina
. Critical. Barcelona, \u200b\u200b2002. BOSCH
(juggling life).
Icaria. Barcelona, \u200b\u200b2003.
KING, Ynestra: Healing the wounds: feminism, ecology and nature-culture dualism
. Ecorama, 1997. J. Lovelock
Ages of Gaia. Col. Metatemas Tusquets. Barcelona, \u200b\u200b1993.
MIES Maria and Vandana Shiva, Ecofeminism
. Icaria.Barcelona, \u200b\u200b1993.
Marilyn Waring: If women counted
. Vindication Feminista, Madrid, 1994.
Hortensia Fernández Medrano
Source: http://laciudaddelasdiosas.blogspot.com/2010/03/el-cuidado-de-la-vida-humana-y-de-la.html
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
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Finally a book with the story of Marcela and Elisa
dared call me Carlos Alonso very excited the other day to give me the news: at last the book in Castilian on this bizarre story that I have so often vindicated as a starting point for lesbian visibility in Spain during the twentieth century (both in my articles and in my book
I I do not imagine that you dared call me Carlos Alonso very excited the other day to give me the news: at last the book in Castilian on this bizarre story that I have so often vindicated as a starting point for lesbian visibility in Spain during the twentieth century (both in my articles and in my book ) and Joseph Carlos, ever attentive, kept me up to date in advancing the investigations. How he and I commented the other day "for when the movie? To see if any director to cast her ovaries or testes and dares to make a movie. Would have nothing to envy to the best-selling book by Sarah Waters, brought to television by the BBC ( Pearl Luster
(horrible English translation), Fingersmith and more recently Affinity ...). Here is the four-page article published in El País, courtesy of José Carlos at:
http://aflordepiel.wordpress.com/2010/03/14/elisa-y-marcela-mas-alla-de-los daffodil-men-of-gabriel-milhomes-marcela-and-elisa / # comment-558 ...
(If you go to the link page of Joseph Carlos and pinchais on images, you can zoom in on them and read the article, I have not do ... limitadilla consguir is one ...)
(horrible English translation), Fingersmith and more recently Affinity ...). Here is the four-page article published in El País, courtesy of José Carlos at:
http://aflordepiel.wordpress.com/2010/03/14/elisa-y-marcela-mas-alla-de-los daffodil-men-of-gabriel-milhomes-marcela-and-elisa / # comment-558 ...
(If you go to the link page of Joseph Carlos and pinchais on images, you can zoom in on them and read the article, I have not do ... limitadilla consguir is one ...)
s Saturday, March 6, 2010
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Approved the new abortion law!
I think I'll never use the word abortion
and all its derivations. It brings too many negative connotations, too much pain, imprisonment, loneliness, misunderstanding, disregard for the brave women who had to take some time this difficult solution. Hopefully with time and the law on our side, right is restored by the that both women have struggled to stop attacking feminist arguments antediluvian something that should be as natural and as legitimate as it is for some women wear a new tits or surgery of the tonsils ... To be teased I think I'll never use the word abortion
tod @ @ s that you have wanted to put obstacles! I added a reflection
Tere Molla:
We finally did it! 
was slow, but has come. Finally this week we passed the Sexual and Reproductive Health and the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy. The women are in luck, because even with limitations, within four months which is when the law come into force, we will not have to justify our willingness to voluntarily terminate our pregnancies and have, during the first fourteen weeks total freedom to do so. The change is substantial, since the fact that the current circumstances "decriminalized", are very well, "decriminalized" is a continuous protection to the freedom of women by the authorities. And this has fortunately changed with the new law, since in the first period, freedom of choice over our own bodies of women no longer "decriminalized" in order to become a right.
also the group of medical professionals that has always been committed to carry out their work within the current legal cases, happens to have a protected status questioned.
So, both women have won the medical community in the protection and rights and that's always good and helps to move societies against reactionary and archaic powers from the moment of the vote in Senate of the law and therefore its approval, have begun to utter their threats of excommunication. And yes, I refer again to the lords of long black skirts, through the spokesman for the Episcopal Conference has made it clear who may or may not receive communion in the rites of the masses.
is a pity that not apply the same diligence with which we have freely chosen to fall away, while we have also asked for the ban, arguing among other things, precisely the fact that they voluntarily suspended our pregnancy, and not by those we have removed from its sectarian organization we did not ask to enter.
They are not the only ones screaming. Internal quarrels aside, the movements that are contrary to the passage of this law is also being mobilized and, for example have called a demonstration in Madrid for upcoming dates. It will be interesting from the sofa in my house to see who take to the streets to protest. But they also move in the network and is curious to see how they created a website to collect signatures to ask the king not to sign this legislation into law. Obviously
demonstrations of any kind that are not violent are the right of the citizenry as a whole, but I can not deny that it's funny to see black skirts and demonstrating in the streets and hear the rustle of them in motion.
claim the protection of life, but neither they nor the others who go on the street have said a word about the protection of victims' lives to free them, with their androcentric discourse lead and kills women and girls around the world.
Nor with unspeakable vices which are slowly coming to light have protected the lives of all victims who have provoked throughout the world and throughout history, and do now seek to give us moral lessons?
The hypocrisy in its highest degree is what these people represent in my eyes. As always belligerent attitude to the advancement of citizenship rights leads them to position themselves in such radical and stubborn attitudes that get away every day more than the prevailing reality, and although always have around who would join in demonstrations to attending, nor lose sight of that person, then in their private lives also benefit from these rights now they criticize, since they also terminate pregnancies, divorce or gay people who want to do, get married and / or adopt creatures.
At least now it is that as a society we welcome progress in rights, freedom and security that recently passed the rule gives us women and the medical profession who believe that we are women who have to decide on our own body and not leave that decision up to any religious beliefs and seeks to impose its moral reactionary.
For Molla Teresa Castells
Journalist and feminist in Ontinyent, Valencia, Spain.
http://www.mujeresnet.info/2010/03/por-fin-se-hizo.html
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