masculinity itself, as an identity construct that seems to depend for its existence on being extremely different from females and very glad of it, and contemptuous of all things female and feminine. Especially well-developed by Nancy Chodorow [The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender. Berkeley CA: University of California Press 1978] and Dorothy Dinnerstein [The Mermaid and the Minotaur: Sexual Arrangements and Human Malaise. NY: Harper and Row 1976].

Referred to here by Katherine Montwieler

And here, in it's emphasis on the isolated self as opposed to the connected self (including contempt for women)...

And again here, more specifically as ecofeminism...

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