Sobre mujeres, naturaleza y animalesentre belleza e infravaloración

Abstract

The patriarchal system and the anthropocentric system converge in the justification of hierarchy and domina-tion. Women, so often reduced to beautiful objects destined to please men in the domestic sphere -and also in the public sphere-, have been linked to nature, separated from animality and de-prived of autonomy and freedom. The beauty of other animals has also meant, in countless cases, deprivation of freedom or even extermination: zoos, aquariums or stuffed bodies to be ex-hibited and admired. Underlying these attitudes of undervalua-tion and domination are androcentrism and anthropocentrism, which today lead us to inequality, discrimination, violence and environmental collapse. As ecofeminist philosophy has shown, there are multiple links between the domination of women and the domination of nature and other animals, so that the concep-tual keys provided by this thinking are essential to address the unsustainable and destructive way in which we relate to the rest of nature. This article analyzes, from an ecofeminist perspective, some of the proposals that approach the beauty of the natural world not only as an essential element to favor its respect and protection, but also as a risk insofar as being reduced to a beau-tiful object has led, on occasions, to the denial of being the sub-ject-of-a-life