Interlocking Struggles Against Oppression

Three of my favourite quotes:

“Human domination of nature wears a garment cut from the same cloth as intra-human domination, but one which, like each of the others, has a specific form and shape of its own. Human relations to nature are not only ethical, but also political” ( Val Plumwood 1993:13).

“Feminism, as liberation struggle, must exist apart from and as a part of the larger struggle to eradicate domination in all forms. We must understand that patriarchal domination shares ideological foundation with racism and other forms of group oppression, that there is no hope that it can be eradicated while these systems remain intact” (bell hooks 1989:22).

“...‘the victim’ is a social construction. We all deal in a conventional wisdom that influences our perception of the world around us. This wisdom allows us to characterize the victims of crime. Moreover, it defines for us just who is the victim in any situation. What this also means is that alternative victims can be constructed. Why we conceive of some persons as victims and others not as victims is a consequence of our commonsense assumptions” (Richard Quinney 1973:321).