The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution : A Feminist Reappraisal of the Scientific Revolution - Hardcover

Merchant, Carolyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0062505718 ISBN 13: 9780062505712

Publisher: Harpercollins, 1980

Synopsis

Reveals how the scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries changed our view of the earth and argues that the advance of science set back the cause of women

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Review:

"Brilliantly conceived and richly researched."-- Susan Griffin"Offers a deeply perceptive discussion of the perennial debate between the organic and the mechanistic view of Nature and Life."-- Walter Pagel"A complex and rewarding work. . . Through unearthing the historical roots of our current crisis, Merchant has. . . deepened and enriched our understanding of both our past and present."-- "Environmental Ethics""[Merchant] continually forges strong links between the events of centuries long past ant the dilemmas faced by 20th-century industrialized societies."-- "Environmental Review""A work of prodigious scholarship. . .A crucial first step toward illuminating the complexities of the woman/nature relationship as it informs the dominant mechanistic paradigm of the modern age."-- "Women's Studies International Quarterly"

Synopsis:

Traces the scientific revolution and its effects on women, the environment and the meaning of science today. This journey through the scientific revolution shows how the mechanistic world view of modern science sanctioned the exploitation of nature, unrestrained commercial expansion and a new socioeconomic order that subordinated women. It combines the politics, literature, art, popular culture and philosophy of the period with developments in physics, mathematics and technology to show the driving forces in the rise of modern science.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0062505718
• ISBN 13: 9780062505712
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1