I realized I was prey. I was a meal for a crocodile in the most ancient sense.
I realized I was prey. I was a meal for a crocodile in the most ancient sense.
Val-Plumwood
Rationalism is the key to the connected oppressions of women and nature in the West.
Rationalism is the key to the connected oppressions of women and nature in the West.
The project is changing the master story, the background narrative of our culture.
The project is changing the master story, the background narrative of our culture.
The standpoint of mastery sees the other as radically separate and inferior, the background to th...
The standpoint of mastery sees the other as radically separate and inferior, the background to the self as foreground.
Until we can acknowledge our dependency on nature, we cannot develop a truly sustainable culture.
Until we can acknowledge our dependency on nature, we cannot develop a truly sustainable culture.
We need to recognize ourselves as ecological beings who are thoroughly enmeshed in a larger world...
We need to recognize ourselves as ecological beings who are thoroughly enmeshed in a larger world of nature.
Profile: Val Plumwood
Val Plumwood was an Australian ecofeminist philosopher whose rigorous critique of dualism revealed how Western philosophy’s hierarchical separation of reason from nature, mind from body, and …