Earthcare

<p>Written by one of the leading thinkers in environmentalism, <em>Earthcare</em> brings together Merchant's existing work on the topic of women and the environment as well as updated and new essays. <em>Earthcare</em> looks at age-old historical associations of women with nature, beginning with Eve and continuing through to environmental activists of today, women's commitment to environmental conservation, and the problematic assumptions of women as caregivers and men as dominating nature.</p> List of Illustrations and Tables, Acknowledgements, Introduction: Women and the Environment, PART ONE THEORY, PART TWO HISTORY, PART THREE PRACTICE, Conclusion. Partnership Ethics: Earthcare for a New Millennium, Notes, Index