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Karen Warren Towards an Ecofeminist Peace Politics Karen J. Warren The Power and the Promise of Ecological Feminism Karen J. Warren Karen J. Warren is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Macalester Collegein St. Paul, Minnesota. Her main philosophical interests are in ethics,feminism (particularly ecological feminism), and critical thinking. Shehas taught or conducted workshops on philosophy, environmental ethics, andcritical thinking for grades K-12, college and university audiences, inprisons, and for public and civic groups. She has guest-edited a specialissue of Hypatia: A Feminism Journal of Philosophy on Ecological Feminism(Spring 1991, vol. 6, no. 1) and three special issues of the American PhilosophicalAssociation Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, and co-edited the sectionon Ecofeminism for Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to RadicalEcology (Michael Zimmerman, general editor, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, PrenticeHall, 1993). In addition to this volume for Routledge, she is currentlycompleting an anthology entitled Ecofeminism - Multi-disciplinary Perspectivesfor Indiana University Press, and she and Jim Cheney are coauthoring a bookentitled Ecological Feminism: A Philosophical Perspective on What It Isand Why It Matters (Denver, CO, Westview, forthcoming). The two essays that follow are Karen Warrens 1996 book Ecological Feminist Philosophies, Indiana Univ. Pr., Bloomington 137 ISBN 0-253-21029-1 TOWARD AN ECOFEMINIST PEACE POLITICS Karen J. Warren Introduction Consider several scenarios offered by Jo Vellacott in her 1982 work,Women, peace, and power, which link violence with resourcelessness: I am a member of an oppressed minority; I have no way of making you listento me; I turn to terrorism. I am a dictator, yet I cannot force you to thinkas I want you to. I fling you in jail, starve your children, torture you.I am a woman in a conventional authoritarian marri