Rachel Carson and her sisters
Subtitle: extraordinary women who have shaped America's environment
By: Robert K. Musil
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780813562421; 9780813576213
Subjects: Environmentalism; Women environmentalists; Women and the environment; Biography; Women naturalists
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: 1. Have you seen the robins? Rachel Carson's mother and the tradition of women naturalists; title: 2. Don't harm the people : Ellen Swallow Richards, Dr. Alice Hamilton, and their heirs take on polluting industries; title: 3. Carson and her sisters : Rachel Carson did not act alone; title: 4. Rachel Carson, Terry Tempest Williams, and ecological empathy; title: 5. The environment around us and inside us: Ellen Swallow Richards, Silent Spring, and Sandra Steingraber; title: 6. Rachel Carson, Devra Davis, pollution, and public policy; title: 7. Rachel Carson and Theo Colborn : endocrine disruption and ethics; title: Epilogue; title: Notes; title: Index.