The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution by Carolyn Merchant (Review)
Reviewed by Margherita Bovo
New York: Harper & Row, 1980
348 pp., $ 11.82
Carolyn Merchant’s The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution (1980) was the first systematic work to develop an area of academia that became known as “ecofeminism” and is still influential among leftist feminists and environmentalists. The book argues that the Scientific Revolution rep…
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