Jerusalem, Gender and the Nature/Culture Binary

In "Not the Mother of All Cities" Galit Hasan-Roken begins, "It has been called mother, sister, daughter." As she accounts, Jerusalem has repeatedly been gendered feminine. In reading her discussion of this association and critical analysis of it, I was reminded of the way in which nature/culture is itself so often gendered along a female/male binary. This raises the question for me as to whether the feminization of Jerusalem is also a linking of Jerusalem to Nature, and as has been the case in much of our class reading, to God as the origin of Nature, rather than "Man" and humankind.