Book Cover
Book
Author Merchant, Carolyn.

Title The death of nature : women, ecology, and the scientific revolution / Carolyn Merchant
Edition First Harper and Row paperback edition
Published New York : Harper & Row, [1989]
©1980

Copies

Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 W'PONDS  304.2 Mer 1989  AVAILABLE
 MELB  304.2 Mer/Don 1989  AVAILABLE
Description xxiv, 348 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Series Science/women's studies
Science/women's studies
Contents Nature as female -- Darm, fen, and forest: European ecology in transition -- Organic society and utopia -- The world an organism -- Nature as disorder: women and witches -- Production, reproduction, and the female -- Dominion ob=ver nature -- The mechanical order -- Mechanism as power -- The management of nature -- Women on nature: Anne Conway and other philosophical feminists -- Leibniz and Newton
Notes "First Harper & Row paperback edition published in 1983"; with new preface
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Originally published 1980
Subject Human ecology.
Philosophy of nature.
Women in science -- Social aspects.
Women in science.
LC no. 89024516
ISBN 0062505955