Rachel Carson and her sisters : extraordinary women who have shaped America's environment /

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In Rachel Carson and her sisters, Robert K. Musil redefines the achievements and legacy of environmental pioneer and scientist Rachel Carson, linking her work to a wide network of American women activists and writers and introducing her to a new, contemporary audience. Rachel Carson was the first Am...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Musil, Robert K., 1943- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]
Temas:
Carson, Rachel, > 1907-1964.
Carson, Rachel, > 1907-1964
Women environmentalists > United States > Biography.
Women environmentalists > United States.
Women naturalists > United States.
Women and the environment > United States.
Environmentalism > United States.
Femmes naturalistes > États-Unis.
Femmes et environnement > États-Unis.
NATURE > Essays.
NATURE > Reference.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Ecotourism.
NATURE > Environmental Conservation & Protection.
Environmentalism.
Women and the environment.
Women environmentalists.
Women naturalists.
United States.
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Have you seen the robins? Rachel Carson's mother and the tradition of women naturalists
  • Don't harm the people: Ellen Swallow Richards, Dr. Alice Hamilton, and their heirs take on polluting industries
  • Carson and her sisters: Rachel Carson did not act alone
  • Rachel Carson, Terry Tempest Williams, and ecological empathy
  • The environment around us and inside us: Ellen Swallow Richards, Silent spring, and Sandra Steingraber
  • Rachel Carson, Devra Davis, pollution, and public policy
  • Rachel Carson and Theo Colborn: endocrine disruption and ethics
  • Epilogue.

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