Reversing valuation traps liberation theory inside the dualistic structure it flees

Evidence

In feminist and liberation theory, the misty, forbidding passes of the Mountains of Dualism have swallowed many an unwary traveller in their mazes and chasms. In these mountains, a well-trodden path leads through a steep defile to the Cavern of Reversal, where travellers fall into an upside-down world which strangely resembles the one they seek to escape. Trapped Romantics wander here, lamenting their exile, as do various tribes of Arcadians, Earth Mothers, Noble Savages and Working-Class Heroes whose identities are defined by reversing the valuations of the dominant culture. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 39

Categorization

• DEFINE: The Cavern of Reversal defines the failure mode of pure inversion — Earth Mothers and Noble Savages are just dualism turned upside down.
• FICTION: The extended pilgrim-allegory of caverns, swamps, and oceans is itself a vivid conceptual map usable as a worldbuilding scaffold.
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Materialism never resolves but only disguises nature dualism by a truncated reversal — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 452; Dualism renders the lower order a mere resource excluded from the moral sphere — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 218; Antifoundational theories involuntarily grow their own hidden foundations

Broader Connections

• Materialism never resolves but only disguises nature dualism by a truncated reversal #complicates (0.95) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 452
• Dualism renders the lower order a mere resource excluded from the moral sphere #expands (0.72) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 218
• Antifoundational theories involuntarily grow their own hidden foundations #expands (0.70)