Although
feminists are extremely critical of the way men have written history and have understood the historical process, and although they sometimes call for the kind of sheer presence in the moment that is characteristic of Buddhists, nevertheless, they are inevitably immersed in
social and historical
analysis.
Presumably he means by this that it is for the Greens to think through the relation of the contributions of deep ecology to those of
social, political, and economic
analysis,
feminists, and liberationists.
While the recent upsurge of
feminist activity in this country has indeed been a liberating one, its force has been chiefly emotional — personal, psychological and subjective — centered, like the other radical movements to which it is related, on the present and its immediate needs, rather than on historical
analysis of the basic intellectual issues which the
feminist attack on the status quo automatically raises.1 Like any revolution, however, the
feminist one ultimately must come to grips with the intellectual and ideological basis of the various intellectual or scholarly disciplines — history, philosophy, sociology, psychology, etc. — in the same way that it questions the ideologies of present
social institutions.