Merchant, Carolyn :

Carolyn Merchant, Ph.D., is professor of environmental history, philosophy, and ethics in the Department of Conservation and Resource Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

"Brilliantly conceived and richly researched."

--Susan Griffin

"Offers a deeply perceptive discussion of the perennial debate between the organic and the mechanistic view of Nature and Life."

-- Walter Pagel

"A complex and rewarding work. . . Through unearthing the historical roots of our current crisis, Merchant has. . . deepened and enriched our understanding of both our past and present."

--Environmental Ethics

"[Merchant ] continually forges strong links between the events of centuries long past ant the dilemmas faced by 20th-century industrialized societies."

--Environmental Review

"A work of prodigious scholarship. . .A crucial first step toward illuminating the complexities of the woman/nature relationship as it informs the dominant mechanistic paradigm of the modern age."

-- Women's Studies International Quarterly

Submitted by Publishers, July, 2001

An examination of the Scientific Revolution that shows how the mechanistic world view of modern science has sanctioned the exploitation of nature, unrestrained commercial expansion, and a new socioeconomic order that subordinates women.