Robert K Musil

Rachel Carson and Her Sisters

Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America's Environment

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Produktbeschreibung

On the fiftieth anniversary of her death, this book helps underscore Carson's enduring environmental legacy and brings to life the achievements of women writers and advocates, such as Ellen Swallow Richards, Dr. Alice Hamilton, Terry Tempest Williams, Sandra Steingraber, Devra Davis and Theo Colborn, all of whom overcame obstacles to build and lead the modern American environmental movement.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 158mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780813562421
• ISBN-10: 0813562422
• Artikelnr.: 40055666

Autorenporträt

ROBERT K. MUSIL is President and CEO of The Rachel Carson Council, Inc., senior fellow at the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, American University, and author of Hope for a Heated Planet. He is the former CEO of the Nobel Peace Prize–winning Physicians for Social Responsibility and an award-winning journalist. 

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Have You Seen the Robins? Rachel Carson's Mother and the Tradition of
Women Naturalists
2. Don't Harm the People: Ellen Swallow Richards, Dr. Alice Hamilton, and
Their Heirs Take On Polluting Industries
3. Carson and Her Sisters: Rachel Carson Did Not Act Alone
4. Rachel Carson, Terry Tempest Williams, and Ecological Empathy
5. The Environment around Us and inside Us: Ellen Swallow Richards, Silent
Spring, and Sandra Steingraber
6. Rachel Carson, Devra Davis, Pollution, and Public Policy
7. Rachel Carson and Theo Colborn: Endocrine Disruption and Ethics
Epilogue
Notes
Index