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

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"An examination of the Scientific Revolution that shows how the mechanistic world view of modern science has sanctioned the exploitation of nature, unrestrained commercial expansion, and a new socioeconomic order that subordinates women."--Publisher description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Merchant, Carolyn (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : HarperSanFrancisco, [1990]
Subjects:
Women in science.
Philosophy of nature.
Human ecology.
Femmes dans les sciences.
Philosophie de la nature.
Écologie humaine.
human ecology.
Frau
Geschichte
Natur
Umwelt
Weltbild
Ecologia Humana.
Mulher E Feminismo.
Women in science
Philosophy of nature
Human ecology
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.