Rachel Carson and her sisters

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

by Musil, Robert K.

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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 American to combine two longstanding, but separate strands of American environmentalism -- the love of nature and a concern for human health. Widely known for her 1962 best-seller, Silent spring, Carso…

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Title Statements

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

Summary

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 American to combine two longstanding, but separate strands of American environmentalism -- the love of nature and a concern for human health. Widely known for her 1962 best-seller, Silent spring, Carson is today often perceived as a solitary "great woman," whose work single-handedly launched a modern environmental movement. But as Musil demonstrates, Carson's life's work drew upon and was supported by already existing movements, many led by women, in conservation and public health

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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, portraits

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780813562438, 0813562430, 1306463424, 9781306463423
  • DOI:10.36019/9780813562438
  • oclc:ocn871258266
  • LC Classification:QH31.C33
  • Dewey Decimal:508.092

Table of Contents

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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Subjects

Biographies Carson, Rachel Environmentalism Environmentalism -- United States Femmes et environnement -- États-Unis Femmes naturalistes -- États-Unis NATURE -- Environmental Conservation & … NATURE -- Essays NATURE -- Reference TRAVEL -- Special Interest 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

Writers

Musil, Robert K.

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