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" The death of nature : "
Carolyn Merchant.
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BL
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871830
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| Main Entry
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Merchant, Carolyn.
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| Title & Author
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The death of nature : : women, ecology, and the scientific revolution /\ Carolyn Merchant.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Harper & Row,, [1989], ©1980.
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Science/women's studies
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xxiv, 348 pages :: illustrations ;; 21 cm.
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| ISBN
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0062505955
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: 9780062505958
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| Notes
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"First Harper & Row paperback edition published in 1983"; with new preface.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Contents
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Time line -- Introduction: women and ecology -- Nature as female -- Farm, fen, and forest: European ecology in transition -- Organic society and Utopia -- The world an organism -- Nature as disorder: women and witches -- Production, reproduction and the female -- Dominion over nature -- The mechanical order -- Mechanism as power -- The management of nature -- Women on nature: Anne Conway and other philosophical feminists -- Leibniz and Newton -- Epilogue.
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Human ecology.
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Philosophy of nature.
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Women in science.
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Écologie humaine.
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Femmes dans les sciences.
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Human ecology.
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Philosophie de la nature.
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Philosophy of nature.
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Women in science.
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| Dewey Classification
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304.2
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Q130.M47 1989
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