Old oppressions stored as dualisms pave the way for new ones.

Evidence

Culture thus accumulates a store of such conceptual weapons, which can be mined, refined and redeployed for new uses. So old oppressions stored as dualisms facilitate and break the path for new ones. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 181

Categorization

• QUESTION: This is the mechanism underlying ecofeminism’s link between gender and nature oppression — core evidence for the Eco-Justice thread.
• XREF: connects to: Masters both rely on the dominated and deny that dependency through backgrounding. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 197; Dualism arises from denied dependency on a subordinated other. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 173; Western identity practices, not being human, cause nature’s destruction — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 73 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Dualism demands hyperseparation achieved by magnifying differences and denying shared qualities #expands (0.85) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 201
• Reversal that revalues the subordinated identity without restructuring it stays trapped in dualism #exemplifies (0.82) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 244
• Revolutionaries who internalized the oppressor can re-create oppression after taking power. #exemplifies (0.80) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 506
• Liberation movements inherit the deformity of what they oppose #corroborates (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 196
• A group can move from oppressed to oppressor by changing its racial assignment #exemplifies (0.80) — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 31
• Ideology changes by reweighting old elements, not by imposition #expands (0.78) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 629
• People stretch old frameworks to fit new phenomena rather than abandon them #expands (0.78)