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Author Musil, Robert K., 1943- author.

Title Rachel Carson and her sisters : extraordinary women who have shaped America's environment / Robert K. Musil
Published New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 309 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Contents Introduction -- Have you seen the robins? Rachel Carson's mother and the tradition of women naturalists -- Don't harm the people: Ellen Swallow Richards, Dr. Alice Hamilton, and their heirs take on polluting industries -- Carson and her sisters: Rachel Carson did not act alone -- Rachel Carson, Terry Tempest Williams, and ecological empathy -- The environment around us and inside us: Ellen Swallow Richards, Silent spring, and Sandra Steingraber -- Rachel Carson, Devra Davis, pollution, and public policy -- Rachel Carson and Theo Colborn: endocrine disruption and ethics -- Epilogue
Summary In Rachel Carson and her sisters, Robert K. Musil redefines the achievements and legacy of environmental pioneer and scientist Rachel Carson, linking her work to a wide network of American women activists and writers and introducing her to a new, contemporary audience. Rachel Carson was the first American to combine two longstanding, but separate strands of American environmentalism -- the love of nature and a concern for human health. Widely known for her 1962 best-seller, Silent spring, Carson is today often perceived as a solitary "great woman," whose work single-handedly launched a modern environmental movement. But as Musil demonstrates, Carson's life's work drew upon and was supported by already existing movements, many led by women, in conservation and public health
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-277) and index
Notes English
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Subject Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964
SUBJECT Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964 fast
Subject Women environmentalists -- United States -- Biography
Women environmentalists -- United States
Women naturalists -- United States
Women and the environment -- United States
Environmentalism -- United States.
NATURE -- Essays.
NATURE -- Reference.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Ecotourism.
NATURE -- Environmental Conservation & Protection.
Environmentalism
Women and the environment
Women environmentalists
Women naturalists
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813562438
0813562430
1306463424
9781306463423