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Perspective voyage · 1993

Plumwood — Human/nature dualism and the logic of domination

If human/nature, reason/body, and male/female hierarchies reinforce one logic of domination, can environmental problems be solved by resource management alone?

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What do we owe future people and the more-than-human world?

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Plumwood analyzes the human/nature dualism as linked to other hierarchies through backgrounding, radical exclusion, instrumentalism, and related structures.

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  • Feminist Environmental Philosophy

    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    Locator: §2.2 Feminist environmental philosophy and conceptual frameworks; Plumwood on dualism

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1993 CE · 1993

Feminism and the Mastery of Nature analyzes ecological destruction through conceptual structures linked to gendered, embodied, and colonial domination.

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