Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Yet again, I feel frustrated.  "Nonviolent caregiving offers one construction of power which refuses domination, respects embodied willfulness, but does not let abuse go unchallenged... [it] offers hints of peace and of the rice of its violation," says Ruddick in "Notes Toward a Feminist Peace Politics" (123-124).   Okay, I understand this idea.  My question is how do I implement this as an alternative for war?  I am so frustrated with the fact that I am given so much information and ideas and I have no clear way, no instructions as to how I should go about putting these ideas to use.  It is utterly maddening.  But I suppose that is the point.  I need to find my own way.  Still if caregiving "refuses domination" and "respects embodied willfulness," maybe that is a good way.  I am just left wondering how.  That's all.  Just how.

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