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Loving Your Mother: On the Woman-Nature Relation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Catherine Roach
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Abstract

In this essay I explore the relation between woman and nature. In the first half, I argue that the environmental slogan “Love Your Mother” is problematical because of the way “mother” and “motherhood” function in patriarchal culture. In the essay's second half, I argue that the question, “Are women closer to nature than men?” is conceptually flawed and that the nature-culture dualism upon which it is predicated is in need of being biodegraded for the sake of environmental soundness.

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Research Article
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Hypatia , Volume 6 , Issue 1: Special Issue: Ecological Feminism , Spring 1991 , pp. 46 - 59
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Copyright © 1991 by Hypatia, Inc.

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