Reinventing Eden: The Fate of Nature in Western CultureThis revised edition of Carolyn Merchant’s classic Reinventing Eden has been updated with a new foreword and afterword. Visionary quests to return to the Garden of Eden have shaped Western Culture. This book traces the idea of rebuilding the primeval garden from its origins to its latest incarnations and offers a bold new way to think about the earth. |
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... gender, and . . . practical suggestions for developing sustainable relationships with the rest of our planet.”—Tara Roeder, St. Iohn's University “A sparkling, wide-ranging meditation on Western civiliZation's relationship to nature ...
... gender, and . . . practical suggestions for developing sustainable relationships with the rest of our planet.”—Tara Roeder, St. Iohn's University “A sparkling, wide-ranging meditation on Western civiliZation's relationship to nature ...
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... gender and the environment. It is a pleasure to acknowledge the many persons and institutions that have supported this work. The ideas behind this book were developed in lectures I gave on the topic “Women and Nature: A Declensionist ...
... gender and the environment. It is a pleasure to acknowledge the many persons and institutions that have supported this work. The ideas behind this book were developed in lectures I gave on the topic “Women and Nature: A Declensionist ...
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... genders. The decline continues to the present, but the possibility and, indeed, the absolute necessity of a precipitous, rapid Recovery exists today and could be achieved through a sustainable ecology and an equitable society. This ...
... genders. The decline continues to the present, but the possibility and, indeed, the absolute necessity of a precipitous, rapid Recovery exists today and could be achieved through a sustainable ecology and an equitable society. This ...
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... gender. The way in which gender is encoded into the mainstream Recovery Narrative is crucial to the structure of the story. In the Christian tradition, God—the original oneness—is male, while in the garden the woman (Eve) is subordinate ...
... gender. The way in which gender is encoded into the mainstream Recovery Narrative is crucial to the structure of the story. In the Christian tradition, God—the original oneness—is male, while in the garden the woman (Eve) is subordinate ...
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... gender symbols are not immutable; they can be changed by exposing their presence and rethinking history. The male/female hierarchy encoded into the Genesis texts both consciously and implicitly socializes the young into behavioral ...
... gender symbols are not immutable; they can be changed by exposing their presence and rethinking history. The male/female hierarchy encoded into the Genesis texts both consciously and implicitly socializes the young into behavioral ...
Contents
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Part II New World Edens | 79 |
Part III New Stories | 159 |
Epilogue | 209 |
Afterword | 211 |
Notes | 217 |
Bibliography | 251 |
Index | 271 |
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