“…Kate Soper, following Val Plumwood, identifies such moments of "woman-nature equivalence […] as legitimation for the domestication of women and their relegation to maternal and nurturing functions". 55 The Woman-Nature Equivalence Feminist critiques of Stokes and Brathwaite have addressed their tendency to essentialize connections between gender and particular forms of making. Stonebridge, as described above, addresses Stokes's essentialism in opposing a 'masculine' practice of carving to 'feminine' modelling.…”