In an excellent argument for the importance of the ecofeminist investigation into the connections between the domination of women and the domination of nature, Plumwood seeks to address the “naive” feminist view that consideration of a female-nature connection is a regressive move re-emphasizing the traditional categories of female subjugation to male instrumental rationality. She argues for the necessity of re-structuring a new degendered model of human nature that transcends the old categories of masculine and feminine; the author rejects a model of human nature based on a naive female “closeness to nature”, which denies “reason, intelligence and control of life conditions”. Instead, the author tries to convey the connection between what is human and what is natural.
