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The death of nature : women, ecology, and the scientific revolution /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Merchant, Carolyn
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : HarperSanFrancisco, [1990]
Subjects:	Women in science. Philosophy of nature. Human ecology. Ecologia Humana. Mulher E Feminismo.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Women and ecology.
Nature as female.
Farm, fen, and forest: European ecology in transition.
Organic society and utopia.
The world of organism.
Nature as disorder: women and witches.
Production, reproduction, and the female.
Dominion over nature.
The mechanical order.
Mechanism as power.
The management of nature.
Women on nature: Anne Conway and other philosophical feminists.
Leibniz and Newton.