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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Musil, Robert K., 1943- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Carson, Rachel, > 1907-1964
Carson, Rachel, > 1907-1964.
Women naturalists.
Women environmentalists.
Women and the environment.
Environmentalism.
NATURE > Environmental Conservation & Protection.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Ecotourism.
NATURE > Reference.
NATURE > Essays.
Femmes et environnement > États-Unis.
Femmes naturalistes > États-Unis.
Environmentalism > United States.
Women and the environment > United States.
Women naturalists > United States.
Women environmentalists > United States.
Women environmentalists > United States > Biography.
United States.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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