

The author investigates how a historic shift away from seeing Earth as a living organism, and towards seeing it as a machine, was consequently used to justify domination of both nature and women.

It can be seen as an example of feminist utopian literature of the late 1970s. It is one of the first books to explore the Scientific Revolution through the lenses of feminism and ecology. The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution is a 1980 book by historian Carolyn Merchant. The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution
