Book contents
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Field and Discipline
- 2 Geopolitics and War
- 3 Imperialism
- 4 Anticolonialism
- 5 International Law and International Organization
- 6 Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
- 7 World Peace
- 8 World Economy
- 9 Men, Women, and Gender
- 10 Public Opinion and Education
- 11 Population, Nation, Immigration
- 12 Technology, Progress, and Environment
- From The Barbarization of the Skies (1912)
- From “Talk at Aviation Luncheon” (1934)
- From Cultural Relations and Technical Change (1953)
- From “Ideologies of Delayed Industrialization” (1962)
- From Silent Spring (1962)
- From Britain and Atomic Energy, 1939–1945 (1964)
- From The New Left (1971)
- “On Photography” (1973)
- Bertha von Suttner
- Elizabeth Lippincott McQueen
- Margaret Mead
- Mary Matossian
- Rachel Carson
- Margaret Gowing
- Ayn Rand
- Susan Sontag
- 13 Religion and Ethics
- Index
Rachel Carson
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2022
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Field and Discipline
- 2 Geopolitics and War
- 3 Imperialism
- 4 Anticolonialism
- 5 International Law and International Organization
- 6 Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
- 7 World Peace
- 8 World Economy
- 9 Men, Women, and Gender
- 10 Public Opinion and Education
- 11 Population, Nation, Immigration
- 12 Technology, Progress, and Environment
- From The Barbarization of the Skies (1912)
- From “Talk at Aviation Luncheon” (1934)
- From Cultural Relations and Technical Change (1953)
- From “Ideologies of Delayed Industrialization” (1962)
- From Silent Spring (1962)
- From Britain and Atomic Energy, 1939–1945 (1964)
- From The New Left (1971)
- “On Photography” (1973)
- Bertha von Suttner
- Elizabeth Lippincott McQueen
- Margaret Mead
- Mary Matossian
- Rachel Carson
- Margaret Gowing
- Ayn Rand
- Susan Sontag
- 13 Religion and Ethics
- Index
Summary
THE HISTORY OF LIFE on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings. To a large extent, the physical form and the habits of the earth’s vegetation and its animal life have been molded by the environment. Considering the whole span of earthly time, the opposite effect, in which life actually modifies its surroundings, has been relatively slight. Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species – man – acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world.
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- Women's International Thought: Towards a New Canon , pp. 663 - 669Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022