Abstract
In tight coupling with Lynn White Jr.’s “seminal” 1967 essay, to which this book is devoted, lies an equally influential “ovial” ecofeminist text, Carolyn Merchant’s The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution, which also performs a historical analysis of the origins of our contemporary ecological crisis. A co-examination of these texts, one that strives to put them in dialogue, could prove to be quite fertile for our ecological knowledge and, most importantly, assist in identifying efficacious solutions to an overpopulation of environmental problems. Before exploring some of these in more depth, let’s present some framing questions, questions that might infuse and animate a closer reading of each of these works. Such questions would include the following:• What does a gendered, and specifically ecofeminist, analysis contribute to our appreciation of the views of Lynn White Jr., and how does such an analysis help us to understand, as the title of the essay proclaims, “the historical roots of our ecological crisis”?
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