Carolyn Merchant's View of Nature from the Perspective of Ecofeminism

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10.2991/icmess-18.2018.366How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Carolyn Merchant; Ecofeminism; View of nature; Metaphor

Abstract

This paper analyzes the Carolyn Merchant's ecofeminism perspective of nature. Merchant argues that there exists an artificially-constructed connection between nature and women. The root cause for which both nature and women are kept in subjection stems from the man-centered world outlook of “patriarchy”. The upside of the statement still lies in the fact that Merchant conducts the analysis from the internal of “people” as a class-grouping to determine the original source of ecological problems from mankind itself. She deems that, through the efforts of human beings, the oppressive structure of human-to-nature and human relationships would be lifted, and thus a new equality can be hopefully brought within measurable distance of its establishment.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Chunhua Lv
AU  - Ziyan Wang
PY  - 2018/06
DA  - 2018/06
TI  - Carolyn Merchant's View of Nature from the Perspective of Ecofeminism
BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 2nd International Conference on Management, Education and Social Science (ICMESS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1659
EP  - 1661
SN  - 2352-5398
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