"Women have long been associated with nature."
In the following essay Judith Plant sets out the main principles (in regards to ecofeminism): the closeness of women to nature; the belief that the domination of women and the destruction of nature have the same root cause; patriarchy; and the need to re-establish for nature the organic metaphor over the machine metaphor.
Judith Plant believes that women have long been associated with nature and that historically, women have had no real power in the outside world, no place in decision-making. Other things such as the intellectual life, the work of the mind, have traditionally not been accessible to women for many reasons. Some of these reasons have included society's mentality. According to Judith, today, ecology speaks for the earth, and feminism speaks for the other' in female/male relations. As for ecofeminism, she believes that by speaking for the original others', it seeks to understand the interconnected roots of all......
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