Merchant, Carolyn,

The death of nature : women, ecology, and the scientific revolution / Carolyn Merchant. - xxiv, 348 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

"First Harper & Row paperback edition published in 1983"; with new preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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."--Publisher description.

0062505955 9780062505958

89024516


Women in science
Philosophy of nature
Human ecology

Q130 / .M47 1989

304.2