Earthcare: Women and the Environment

Written by one of the leading thinkers in environmentalism, Earthcare brings together Merchants existing work on the topic of women and the environment as well as updated and new essays. Earthcare looks at ageold historical associations of women with nature, beginning with Eve and continuing through to environmental activists of today, womens commitment to environmental conservation, and the problematic assumptions of women as caregivers and men as dominating nature.