(Ita) Predatory behavior
Mother Nature, Mother Earth, Great Mother: the civilizations of the planet, both past and present ones, are impregnated with myths, legends and rites that recognize the fundamental role of the woman as a life-giver and the strong vital component that binds her figure to all the most natural expressions in a profound and visceral way. This also implies the ambivalent character of this female archetype to whom the most irrational and ferocious qualities connected to nature have been ascribed. A rich body of literature has focused on how the identification of women with nature and non-human beings had been one of the causes of a patriarchal social system whose dominant logic considers women and animals as non-rational beings without rights that have to be subjugated and annihilated. From this common condition derives the solidarity and the strong empathic bond between women and animals that many hope can trigger a new way of relating to other forms of life, overcoming the hierarchical duality Culture/Nature in favor of a sympathetic ethic and an inter-specific morality.
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Mother Nature, Mother Earth, Great Mother: the civilizations of the planet, both past and present ones, are impregnated with myths, legends and rites that recognize the fundamental role of the woman as a life-giver and the strong vital component that binds her figure to all the most natural expressions in a profound and visceral way. This also implies the ambivalent character of this female archetype to whom the most irrational and ferocious qualities connected to nature have been ascribed. A rich body of literature has focused on how the identification of women with nature and non-human beings had been one of the causes of a patriarchal social system whose dominant logic considers women and animals as non-rational beings without rights that have to be subjugated and annihilated. From this common condition derives the solidarity and the strong empathic bond between women and animals that many hope can trigger a new way of relating to other forms of life, overcoming the hierarchical duality Culture/Nature in favor of a sympathetic ethic and an inter-specific morality.
