The Death of Nature
eBook - ePub

The Death of Nature

Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution

  1. 369 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Death of Nature

Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution

About this book

UPDATED 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH 2020 PREFACE

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Time Line
  7. Preface: 2020, A Look Back
  8. Preface: 1990
  9. Introduction: Women and Ecology
  10. 1. Nature as Female
  11. 2. Farm, Fen, and Forest: European Ecology in Transition
  12. 3. Organic Society and Utopia
  13. 4. The World an Organism
  14. 5. Nature as Disorder: Women and Witches
  15. 6. Production, Reproduction, and the Female
  16. 7. Dominion over Nature
  17. 8. The Mechanical Order
  18. 9. Mechanism as Power
  19. 10. The Management of Nature
  20. 11. Women on Nature: Anne Conway and Other Philosophical Feminists
  21. 12. Leibniz and Newton
  22. Epilogue
  23. Acknowledgments
  24. Notes
  25. Index
  26. About the Author
  27. Copyright
  28. About the Publisher