Death of Nature
Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution
1st Edition
Published on 10. September 2019
384 pages
978-0-06-295674-3 (ISBN)
Description
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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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Time Line
- Preface: 2020, A Look Back
- Preface: 1990
- Introduction: Women and Ecology
- 1. Nature as Female
- 2. Farm, Fen, and Forest: European Ecology in Transition
- 3. Organic Society and Utopia
- 4. The World an Organism
- 5. Nature as Disorder: Women and Witches
- 6. Production, Reproduction, and the Female
- 7. Dominion over Nature
- 8. The Mechanical Order
- 9. Mechanism as Power
- 10. The Management of Nature
- 11. Women on Nature: Anne Conway and Other Philosophical Feminists
- 12. Leibniz and Newton
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author
- Copyright
- About the Publisher
