The death of nature
Subtitle: women, ecology, and the scientific revolution
By: Carolyn Merchant.
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
Subjects: Women in science; Philosophy of nature; Human ecology
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"First Harper & Row paperback edition published in 1983"; with new preface.