Made From This Earth

February 15, 1993
In this thoroughly researched and readable book, Norwood, an associate professor of American studies, interprets the contributions of American women to nature study and environmental protection as exemplars of a gender-based ethical relationship to the natural world. Surveying the 19th century, her early chapters pay tribute to the neglected nature essays of Susan Fenimore Cooper and the unrecognized accomplishments of women in their fields of scientific illustration and landscape design. The pivotal chapter on Rachel Carson presents her ecological understanding as the culmination of the domestic theme of nature. Later chapters explore the wildlife careers of women ethologists and the portrayal of nature by women novelists. Norwood concludes with an examination of the current eco-feminist movement. Recommended for women's studies and environmental collections.-- Joan Elbers, Montgomery Coll., Rockville, MD.

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