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Feminism and Ecology: On the Domination of Nature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Patricia Jagentowicz Mills
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Abstract

This paper examines the attempt to bring together feminist and ecological concerns in the work of Isaac Balbus and Ynestra King, two thinkers who place the problem of the domination of nature at the center of contemporary liberation struggles. Through a consideration of the abortion issue (which foregrounds the relation between nature and history, and the problem of their “reconciliation”) I argue against what I call their abstract pro-nature stance.

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Hypatia , Volume 6 , Issue 1: Special Issue: Ecological Feminism , Spring 1991 , pp. 162 - 178
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Copyright © 1991 by Hypatia, Inc.

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