Ynestra king biography ecofeminist

[Woman] became the embodiment of the biological function, the image of nature, the subjugation of which constituted that civilization's title to fame.

For millenia men dreamed of acquiring absolute mastery over nature, of converting the cosmos into one immense hunting ground. It was to this that the idea of man was geared in a male-dominated society. This was the significance of reason, his prouded boast.
— Horkheimer and Adorno,
Dialectic of Enlightenment

ALL HUMAN BEINGS ARE NATURAL BEINGS.

That may seem like an obvious fact, yet we live in a culture that is founded on the repudiation and domination of nature.

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This has special significance for women because, in patriarchal thought, women are believed to be closer to nature than men. This gives women a particular stake in ending the domination of nature—in healing the alienation between human and nonhuman nature.

This is also the ultimate goal of the ecology movement,