![]() ![]() ![]() To survive, women need to either participate in the consumption of women or evade the binary altogether. ![]() Patriarchy sets the nature/culture binary analogous to the gender binary to attribute nature’s physical aspects to women and, in turn, to subordinate, commodify, and consume their bodies. It attributes culture, whose elements are rationality, metaphysics, and technology, to the masculine and conceived as superior side of the binary. Patriarchy subordinates women by attributing nature’s associated elements-emotion, the physical body, and sensory experience-to the feminine. In her book, Feminism and the Mystery of Nature, Val Plumwood explains that patriarchy subordinates nature by contrasting it with rationality, the primary characteristic of culture: “Both rationality and nature have a confusing array of meanings in most of these meanings reason contrasts systematically with nature in one of its many senses” (19). Let Her Eat Cake: Marian as Both the Consumed and the Consumerįrom the ecofeminist perspective, the patriarchy consumes women by assigning them to the nature side of the nature/culture binary, which, by patriarchal standards, is considered inferior to the culture side. ![]()
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