https://www.deepecology.net/tags/ecofeminism/Recent content in Ecofeminism on deep ecologyHugoen-auThu, 02 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.deepecology.net/posts/profiles/val-plumwood/Thu, 02 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.deepecology.net/posts/profiles/val-plumwood/<p><img src="https://www.deepecology.net/images/profile_image_val_plumwood.jpg" alt="Val Plumwood Portrait" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </p> <p>Val Plumwood was an Australian ecofeminist philosopher whose rigorous critique of dualism revealed how Western philosophy&rsquo;s hierarchical separation of reason from nature, mind from body, and human from animal justified both environmental destruction and social oppression. Her work demonstrated that ecological and feminist struggles share common philosophical roots.</p> <p>Plumwood&rsquo;s masterwork &ldquo;Feminism and the Mastery of Nature&rdquo; (1993) analyzed how Western thought constructs dualisms that enable domination. Pairs like reason/nature, male/female, and human/animal reinforce each other in what she called &ldquo;the logic of colonization&rdquo; - where the inferior (nature, women, animals) becomes resource for the superior.</p>