Nature, the nurturing mother, received the same advocacy as regular human women. The Death of Nature Carolyn Merchant HarperCollins, Nature - 384 pages 0 Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified. Conclusionįeminism and environmentalism essentially pursue the same goal: creating a more just and equal society. Similar to how the subjugation of nature was akin to the subjugation of women, the liberation of both was also related. She viewed the way scientists and businesses treated nature similar to how they treated women and likens it to the way they used to torture witches. Merchant evokes imagery of rape, as the scientific and economic forces probed what was once a nurturing female figure, and became something to tame, enslave, and exploit. Her book The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution is. After technological progress demystified nature, it became morally permissible to do just that. Carolyn Merchant is a philosopher and historian of environment and science. “One does not readily slay a mother, dig into her entrails for gold or mutilate her body, although commercial mining would soon require that,” Merchant wrote. That way of thinking ensured that destruction, desecration, and exploitation of nature were sacrilegious and morally unjust. They considered Earth to be a nurturing mother, giving gifts of her womb to the humans that it also birthed. Merchant describes the pre-scientific view of nature that humans have held for a long time.
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