Death of nature: women, ecology and the scientific revolution.

New Internationalist | September 1, 1996 | Copyright

...being the book that became a seminal text of eco-feminism.

CAROLYN MERCHANT'S The Death of Nature was one of the first texts to look at the scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries from a feminist and ecological perspective. Reading it as a young graduate, I found much which helped me to understand my personal alienation from physics - the subject which I had thought would enable me to understand the universe.

Merchant argues that, during the shift towards empirical science, the underlying metaphor of the world changed from one of ...

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