Lauren Clark

The article, The Pursuit of Nature's Secrets, greatly brings up a series of questions about women's power, and how we have lost it. I think that before one can inquire about "nature's secrets," we first and foremost need to understand the historical factor of nature and how it was very beneficial to women. Technology, itself, has even ruin humans connection to nature and the ways that the environment (in it's natural state) can be utilized to heal itself. Being of the XX sex, women already had that connection with nature in just having the ability to bring forth life and to bleed without dying. I really believe that men's observation of this connection led to the beginning of men's fear of women, and thus causing for the subordination of women, and the beginning of patriarchy. In addition, the menstrual cycle and it's connection with the moon and gravity, is a highly mysterious phenomenon. Before technology and the concept of land ownership/property, men and women were viewed equally. There were no such things as "division of labor," where men are assigned these choirs and women are assigned another. As women, we took care of the earth. We nurtured it because we realized how greatly we rely on it. So in pertaining to the article, I highly doubt if these secrets are new to women. I believe that many of us may actually practice these secrets as everyday things, and may not necessarily know that they are secrets.