Rachel Carson and Her Sisters : : Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America's Environment /

Rachel Carson and Her Sisters : : Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America's Environment / / Robert K Musil.

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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 Ame...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Musil, Robert K,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.) :; 13 photographs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Have You Seen the Robins? Rachel Carson’s Mother and the Tradition of Women Naturalists
  • 2. Don’t Harm the People: Ellen Swallow Richards, Dr. Alice Hamilton, and Their Heirs Take On Polluting Industries
  • 3. Carson and Her Sisters: Rachel Carson Did Not Act Alone
  • 4. Rachel Carson, Terry Tempest Williams, and Ecological Empathy
  • 5. The Environment around Us and inside Us: Ellen Swallow Richards, Silent Spring, and Sandra Steingraber
  • 6. Rachel Carson, Devra Davis, Pollution, and Public Policy
  • 7. Rachel Carson and Theo Colborn: Endocrine Disruption and Ethics
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author

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