"Val Plumwood was an eminent environmental philosopher and activist who was prominent in the development of radical ecophilosophy from the early 1970s until her death in 2008. Her book Feminism and the Mastery of Nature (1992) has become a classic. In 1985 she was attacked by a crocodile while kayaking alone in the Kakadu national park in the Northern Territory. She was death rolled three times before being released from the crocodile’s ..."
"Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason is a frontal attack on the irrational assumptions that drive Western society's progress toward ecological catastrophe. Val Plumwood maintains that "the dominant forms of reason--economic, political, scientific, and ethical/prudential--are failing us because they are subject to a systematic pattern of distortions and illusions," distortions that are blind to ecological value. Plumwoo ..."
"Philosophy's traditional "man of reason" independent, neutral, unemotional is an illusion. That's because the "man of reason" ignores one very important thing the woman. As feminist philosophy grew in the 1980s and '90s, it became clear that the attributes philosophical tradition wrote off as "womanly" are in fact part of human nature. No longer can philosophy maintain the dichotomy between the rational man and the emotional woman, but ..."
Feminism and the Mastery of Nature(1st Edition) (Opening Out: Feminism for Today) by ValPlumwood Hardcover, 250 Pages, Published 2015 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-138-12894-1, ISBN: 1-138-12894-5
"Two of the most important political movements of the late twentieth century are those of environmentalism and feminism. In this book, Val Plumwood argues that feminist theory has an important opportunity to make a major contribution to the debates in political ecology and environmental philosophy. Feminism and the Mastery of Nature explains the relation between ecofeminism, or ecological feminism, and ..."
"Philosophy in both Australia and New Zealand has been has been experiencing, for some time now, something of a 'golden age', exercising an influence in the global arena that is disproportionate to the population of the two countries. To capture the distinctive and internationally recognised contributions Australasian philosophers have made to their discipline, a series of public talks by leading Australasian philosophers was convened at ..."
"Indigenous animist concepts of self and death succeed in breaking this
pernicious false choice and suggesting ... In place of the Western war of life
against death whose battleground has been variously the spirit-identified afterlife
and the ... South America and Africa have many species which make walking,
camping or adventuring alone in many habitats a ... Those like myself who have
grown up in the bush of Southern Australia have ..."
"Can privilege be bought? Arguments have raged over whether private education in the UK is ‘the cement in the wall’ dividing British society, or whether parental choice is, as has also been argued ‘a key component of a free society’. The author here describes the traditional private sector schools, paying attention to the ways in which parents can purchase privilege for their children through attendance at such schools. He argues that th ..."
Environmental Culture The Ecological Crisis of Reason by ValPlumwood Digital, Published 2005 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-134-68296-6, ISBN: 1-134-68296-4
"In this much-needed account of what has gone wrong in our thinking about the environment, Val Plumwood digs at the roots of environmental degradation. She argues that we need to see nature as an end itself, rather than an instrument to get what we want. Using a range of examples, Plumwood presents a radically new picture of how our culture must change to accommodate nature."
"Do Pagan practices lead to an ecological approach to life? What is the role of magic in contemporary Paganism? How can ancient Pagan codes of behavior be applied today? Representing diverse arenas of Paganism, eleven established activists, authors and academics passionately debate the critical issues facing modern Pagans. These provocative discussions-exploring feminism, magickal ecology, ancient Egyptian ethics, political activism ..."
Environmental Culture The Ecological Crisis of Reason by ValPlumwood Digital, Published 2005 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-134-68293-5, ISBN: 1-134-68293-X
"In this much-needed account of what has gone wrong in our thinking about the environment, Val Plumwood digs at the roots of environmental degradation. She argues that we need to see nature as an end itself, rather than an instrument to get what we want. Using a range of examples, Plumwood presents a radically new picture of how our culture must change to accommodate nature."
"... University Press, 1991); Louise M. Antony and Charlotte Witt, eds., A Mind of
One's Own: Feminist Essays on Reason and Objectivity (Boulder, Colo. ...
Carolyn Burke and Gillian C. Gill (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993);
Elizabeth Grosz, Volatile Bodies: Toward a Cor- poreal Feminism ... Andrea Nye,
Words of Power: A Feminist Reading of the History of Logic (New York:
Routledge, 1990). 5."
"Two of the most important political movements of the late twentieth century are those of environmentalism and feminism. In this book, Val Plumwood argues that feminist theory has an important opportunity to make a major contribution to the debates in political ecology and environmental philosophy. Feminism and the Mastery of Nature explains the relation between ecofeminism, or ecological feminism, and other feminist theories including r ..."
"Two of the most important political movements of the late twentieth century are those of environmentalism and feminism. In this book, Val Plumwood argues that feminist theory has an important opportunity to make a major contribution to the debates in political ecology and environmental philosophy. Feminism and the Mastery of Nature explains the relation between ecofeminism, or ecological feminism, and other feminist theories including r ..."
Environmental Culture The Ecological Crisis of Reason by ValPlumwood 304 Pages, Published 2001 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-203-99643-0, ISBN: 0-203-99643-7
"'Self-Validating Reduction: Toward a Theory of Environmental Devaluation', Environmental Ethics, 18 115–132. —— 1997. A Practical Companion to Ethics. Oxford University Press, Oxford. —— 1998. 'Universal Consideration as an Originary ..."
"The volume documents, and makes an original contribution to, an astonishing period in twentieth-century philosophy the progress of Arne Naess's ecophilosophy from its inception to the present. It includes Naess's most crucial polemics with leading thinkers, drawn from sources as diverse as scholarly articles, correspondence, TV interviews and unpublished exchanges. The book testifies to the skeptical and self-correcting aspects of Naess ..."
"In this book, Val Plumwood argues that feminist theory has an important opportunity to make a major contribution to the debates in political ecology and environmental philosophy."