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University of North Carolina Press
Made From This Earth: American Women and Nature
Made From This Earth: American Women and Nature
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The broad sweep of environmental and ecological history has until now been written and understood in predominantly male terms. In Made From This Earth, Vera Norwood explores the relationship of women to the natural environment through the work of writers, illustrators, landscape and garden designers, ornithologists, botanists, biologists, and conservationists.
Norwood begins by showing that the study and promotion of botany was an activity deemed appropriate for women in the early 1800s. After highlighting the work of nineteenth-century scientific illustrators and garden designers, she focuses on nature's advocates such as Rachel Carson and Dian Fossey who differed strongly with men on both women's nature and the value of the natural world. These women challenged the dominant, male-controlled ideologies, often framing their critique with reference to values arising from the female experience. Norwood concludes with an analysis of the utopian solutions posed by ecofeminists, the most recent group of women to contest men over the meaning and value of nature.
Author: Vera Norwood
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 03/05/1993
Pages: 392
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.19w x 1.17d
ISBN: 9780807843963
Norwood begins by showing that the study and promotion of botany was an activity deemed appropriate for women in the early 1800s. After highlighting the work of nineteenth-century scientific illustrators and garden designers, she focuses on nature's advocates such as Rachel Carson and Dian Fossey who differed strongly with men on both women's nature and the value of the natural world. These women challenged the dominant, male-controlled ideologies, often framing their critique with reference to values arising from the female experience. Norwood concludes with an analysis of the utopian solutions posed by ecofeminists, the most recent group of women to contest men over the meaning and value of nature.
Author: Vera Norwood
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 03/05/1993
Pages: 392
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.19w x 1.17d
ISBN: 9780807843963
About the Author
Norwood, Vera: - Vera Norwood, professor of American studies at the University of New Mexico, is coeditor of The Desert Is No Lady: Southwestern Landscapes in Women's Writing and Art.
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