ABSTRACT
Ruether is a feminist with gender as a central lens for her analysis. But it is not the only one; she understands feminism as comprehensive and integrative. Her work demonstrates the breadth of feminist thought and emphasizes gender constructions’ cultural dimensions. From this comprehensive view, gender impinges on or ows into other categories, such as the environment. Ruether set out an agenda for exploring overlapping issues of gender constructions that included ecology in her one of her earlier books, To Change the World:
e ecological crisis has something to do with social domination. is crisis has its genesis in certain structures of power and ownership. … e exploitation of natural resources does not take
place in an unmediated way. … Social domination is the missing link in the question of domination of nature. e environmental crisis is basically insoluble as long as a system of social domination remains intact that allows the owners and decision-makers to maintain high prots for the few by passing on costs to the many in the form of low wages, high prices, bad working conditions and toxic side eects of the techniques of extraction.1
