Conquering nature is mythically gendered as conquering woman

Evidence

Very often they project the values and institutions to which they adhere onto the myth they adopt. Thus paternalism that calls for woman to stay at home defines her as sentiment, interiority, and immanence; in fact, every existent is simultaneously immanence and transcendence; when he is offered no goal, or is prevented from reaching any goal, or denied the victory of it, his transcendence falls uselessly into the past, that is, it falls into immanence; this is the lot assigned to women in patriarchy; but this is in no way a vocation, any more than slavery is the slave’s vocation. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 655 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Woman’s subjugation symbolizes the mastery of nature that defines civilization — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 255; Female virtue is the broken form in which exploited nature enters male culture — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 256; Desiring woman as transfigured nature drives men to make her artificial — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 351 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Exploration discourse gendered the colonizer as masculine master and the land as feminine #exemplifies (0.90)
• Patriarchal mythology projects its own values onto woman and calls imposed immanence her nature #expands (0.85) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 655