Women’s Subjugation, Earth’s Exploitation: Carolyn Merchant and the Development of Eco-Feminism, By Verity Highe

Carolyn Merchant’s book The Death of Nature, published in 1980, chronicles her groundbreaking theories surrounding the historiographies of the Scientific Revolution and how the changing rhetoric of science contributed to both the destruction of nature and the oppression of women. This related to a new strand of feminism called ecofeminism coined by French feminist Françoise Continue Reading