Val Plumwood was an environmental philosopher active in the first wave of Australian environmental philosophy. “Much of Plumwood’s environmental philosophy was focused on analyzing, critiquing, and providing alternatives to dualisms that she believed lie at the heart of the domination of women, nature, and others.” Her publications include Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, where she “developed a feminist critique to argue that the master form of western culture’s rationality was unable to acknowledge its dependence on nature” and Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason, where she argues that “distortions of reason and culture created dangerous forms of ecological denial that...gave us an illusory sense of our independence from nature.”