Rejecting the women-nature link without renegotiating nature’s status installs the master model by default.

Evidence

Hence to simply repudiate the old tradition of feminine connection with nature, and to put nothing in its place, usually amounts to the implicit endorsing of an alternative master model of the human, and of human relations to nature, and to female absorption into this model. It does not yield, as it might seem to do at first, a genderneutral position; unless the question of relation to nature is explicitly put up for consideration and renegotiation, it is already settled—and settled in an unsatisfactory way—by the dominant western model of humanity into which women will be fitted. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 110

Categorization

• XREF: This is the structural trap that names the ecofeminist position — bridges directly to deep ecology chapter’s critique of ‘identification’ as apolitical. — connects to: Ecofeminism revalues a women-nature connection the west historically devalued to oppress women — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 60
• SEED: Potential article angle: how ‘by default’ settlements do ideological work — every space vacated by one contestation is already filled by the dominant model unless explicitly renegotiated.