Rejecting nature-culture dualism improves feminist accounts of reproduction

Evidence

A rejection of nature/culture dualism can actually provide a much better framework for thinking about women’s reproductive issues than the dualising framework which creates an opposition between the body and free subjectivity. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 162

Categorization

• XREF: Links the dualism critique to concrete abortion/reproductive-freedom stakes — bridges the philosophical and the activist-legal threads of the polyad. — connects to: The human concept carries masculine bias because gender and nature dualisms intertwine — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 140; Difference-based feminist critique aims at less dualistic culture, not traditional roles — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 305; Resolving nature dualism needs reconceiving humans as more natural and nature as more mindlike — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 465 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Gender can be distinguished from sex and nature without dualism #corroborates (0.85) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 762
• Difference-based feminist critique aims at less dualistic culture, not traditional roles #corroborates (0.80) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 305
• Women-nature identifications are historical constructions, not biological essences #corroborates (0.80) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 49
• Resolving nature dualism needs reconceiving humans as more natural and nature as more mindlike #expands (0.78) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 465
• Female reproductive biology subordinates individual life to species demands #qualifies (0.72) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 97