This is the point at which the "rape of nature" ceases to be a metaphor. It is an accurate depiction... rape stems from a compulsive need to control, to control completely.... From... inadequacy flow fear, anger, the need to punish and subjugate.... the objective is... to dominate this elusive, troubling female so that she will do what she is ordered to do.... that requires the objectification of the other; she must become what he wants her to become.


Ch.7 The Rape of Nature - The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999)

Theodore Roszak Quotes

This is the point at which the rape of nature ceases to be a metaphor. It is an accurate depiction... rape stems from a compulsive need to control,...

This is the point at which the rape of nature ceases to be a metaphor. It is an accurate depiction... rape stems from a compulsive need to control,...

This is the point at which the rape of nature ceases to be a metaphor. It is an accurate depiction... rape stems from a compulsive need to control,...

This is the point at which the rape of nature ceases to be a metaphor. It is an accurate depiction... rape stems from a compulsive need to control,...