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Article: Death of nature: women, ecology and the scientific revolution.
- Article from:
- New Internationalist
- Article date:
- September 1, 1996
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...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 a living organism infused with internal spirit, to that of a dead, passive machine moved by ...