ABSTRACT
I argue in this chapter that feminist critiques of the rationalist tradition in ethics are particularly relevant to environmental ethics, and that the dominant trends in environmental philosophy have failed to engage properly with this tradition. Thus, they continue to employ damaging assumptions from this tradition in attempting to formulate a new environmental philosophy, and often make use of or embed themselves within rationalist philosophical frameworks which are not only biased from a gender perspective, but which have been inimical to nature as well.
