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

by Musil, Robert K.

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Title Statements

Full title :Rachel Carson and her sisters : extraordinary women who have shaped America's environment / Robert K. Musil.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Rutgers University Press
Place of Publication:New Brunswick, New Jersey
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xv, 309 pages :) : illustrations.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780813562421, 0813562422
oclc:on1228541280
Dewey Decimal:508.092

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.

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Biographies Carson, Rachel Environmentalism Environmentalism -- United States Femmes et environnement -- États-Unis Femmes naturalistes -- États-Unis United States Women and the environment Women and the environment -- United Sta… Women environmentalists Women environmentalists -- Biography. -… Women environmentalists -- United States Women naturalists Women naturalists -- United States