archal dualism and alienation from nature. Modern Science supports the worldview of the western, capitalistic patriarchy. This system of knowledge is not objective or value-free. Modern Science emerged when the middle class white western males produced the "Scientific Revolution" for their benefit. Science discredited other forms and systems of knowledge: traditional women's knowledge and knowledge of non-western societies. The European witch-hunts of the sixteenth century served as a mean of destruction of the expertise of women. By the seventeenth century, women were excluded from practicing medicine and healing. The "wise women", what originally is meant by witches were declared evil and persecuted, "disorderly women, like chaotic nature, needed to be controlled" (Merchant, 1980 p. 127). The Witch persecutions were tied to changes in consciousness and social reality: "patriarchal science and technology was developed only after these women [the witches] had been murdered and… their knowledge, wisdom, and close relationship with nature had been destroyed" (Mies & Shiva, 1993 p. 17). Those changes were in interest of emerging power of the Christian Church and the patriarchy. The Church gained monopoly and authority through the fragmentation of rural communities. It destroyed cooperation and unity of the rural community. The emergence of modern science was, and still is a source of violence. "Male science" has created ecological disasters, supported militarism, turned human labor into physically and mentally mutilating work, develop ways of controlling and colonizing the "other". The patriarchal society eliminated women from positions of power. Science, politics, and economy became men’s domain. Women's economic dependency on men has put women in position of subordination, powerlessness, and worthlessness. It has ensured women's conformity to motherhood and labor, she is a “domesticated animal” working and breadin...
