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jone_d's review
I just finished reading Chapter 2: "the logic of colonization." This was a reading for a Anne Filemyr's Theory and Practice of Ecology from Indigenous Cultures to Sustainability class that I sat in on after graduating from Antioch. I think the ideas in the text were pretty foundational to the class and actually to a lot of what Anne taught, but I'm only getting around to readying the whole thing, what is this, thirteen years later. Anyway I think this chapter does a great job at a number of things: explaining how dualism works, examining some of the traps of developing a politics that is based on opposition to a dominant group, class or identity, drawing a distinction between problematizing western approaches to logic and rationality and dismissing logic or rationality as useful, and explaining how a politics of cultural feminism relates to the dualistic problems of homogenization and radical exclusion as well as how such a politics can obscure the ways that the identity of woman (or man for that matter) may also include many dominant roles that are not related to gender. I'm glad I finally got around to reading this!
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