Download or read book Earthcare written by Carolyn Merchant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of the leading thinkers in environmentalism, Earthcare brings together Merchant's existing work on the topic of women and the environment as well as updated and new essays. Earthcare 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.