Women and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her
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The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution (1980) is a book by Carolyn Merchant.
The Death of Nature is Merchant's most well received book. In this book she emphasizes on the importance of gender in the historiography of modern science. Additionally, she focuses her book on "the sexist assumptions that informed sixteenth-and seventeenth-century conceptions of the universe and human physiology." Merchant expresses the importance of gender in early modern writing on nature too, and its use of environmental, social, and literary history to have a context for the history of science.
Carolyn Merchant’s The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution leaves a scholarly legacy in the fields of environmental history, philosophy, and feminism. The book is considered groundbreaking due her connection between the feminization of nature and the naturalization of women. Along with this connection, she backs up her claim with historical evidence during the time of enlightenment. Merchant was not the first to present on ecofeminist ideals and theories. Françoise d'Eaubonne coined the term ecofeminisme to portray the influence of women and their ability to generate an ecological revolution in her book Le Feminisme ou la Morte. Susan Griffin's book, Women and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her, also talks about women ecology was written in 1978 before the Death of Nature was written. The Death of Nature is influential despite these earlier works because it is the first interpretation of an ecofeminist perspective on history ecology.
