Tournament: UT | Round: 1 | Opponent: Saint Marys Hall LK | Judge: IDK
Kritik 1NC
And, their understanding of agriculture is saturated with Western science—this works to exclude localized feminine knowledge and proves the alt solves better
Ferguson 94 Anne E. Ferguson is director of the Women in International Develop- ment Program and assistant professor of anthropology at Michigan State, “Gendered Science: A Critique of Agricultural Development,” American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 96, No. 3 (Sep., 1994), pp. 540-552 JSTOR
THE RAPIDLY EXPANDING LITERATURE ON WOMEN AND THE ENVIRONMENT
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ultimately influenced the pro- posed plant-breeding strategy.
That causes extinction---edited for language
Nhanenge 7 Jytte Masters @ U South Africa, paper submitted in part fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of master of arts in the subject Development Studies, “ECOFEMINSM: TOWARDS INTEGRATING THE CONCERNS OF WOMEN, POOR PEOPLE AND NATURE INTO DEVELOPMENT
Technology can be used to dominate societies or to enhance
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and more humanistic view than these experts.
The alternative is to reject the affirmative’s gendered enframing of the world—simply the process of critique removes the ideological blinders inherent in policy-making. The permutation is doomed to failure b/c the starting point of the 1AC was profoundly militarized
Shepherd 8 Laura J. Shepherd, Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham, “Gender, Violence and Global Politics: Contemporary Debates in Feminist Security Studies,” EBSCO
As discussed above, ideas about masculinity and femininity
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constructing knowledge about the world.