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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779803503321

Autore

Plumwood Val

Titolo

Feminism and the mastery of nature [[electronic resource] /] / Val Plumwood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1993

ISBN

1-280-18490-6

9786610184903

0-203-00675-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Collana

Opening out

Disciplina

305.42/01

Soggetti

Ecofeminism

Philosophy of nature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [218]-230) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents

Sommario/riassunto

Two of the most important political movements of the late twentieth century are those of environmentalism and feminism. In this book, Val Plumwood argues that feminist theory has an important opportunity to make a major contribution to the debates in political ecology and environmental philosophy. Feminism and the Mastery of Nature explains the relation between ecofeminism, or ecological feminism, and other feminist theories including radical green theories such as deep ecology. Val Plumwood provides a philosophically informed account of the relation of women and nature, and shows