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Rachel Carson and her sisters : extraordinary women who have shaped America's environment
- Author
- Musil, Robert K., 1943-
- Title
- Rachel Carson and her sisters : extraordinary women who have shaped America's environment / Robert K. Musil.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014] ©2014
- Description
- xv, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-277) and index.
- Contents
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- 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.
- 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.
- Subject headings
- Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964.
- Medical subjects
- Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964.
- Subject headings
- Women naturalists--United States. Women environmentalists--United States--Biography. Women environmentalists--United States. Women and the environment--United States. Environmentalism--United States.
- Medical subjects
- Conservation of Natural Resources. Women. Environmental Health. Environmental Pollution. United States.
- Genre heading
- Biography.
- ISBN
- 0813562430 (e-book) 9780813562421 (hardcover ; alk. paper) 0813562422 (hardcover) 9780813562438 (e-book)