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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?

Val Plumwood Feminism and the Mastery of Nature

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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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Her alternative does not erase difference into identity; it calls for non-dominating relations that acknowledge dependency and the other's agency.

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Feminist Environmental Philosophy
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Locator: §3.2 Ecofeminist philosophical perspectives; relationality and anti-domination
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