Carolyn Merchant

Articles and Publications

Early Work (As Carolyn Iltis)

• 1 1970. "D'Alembert and the Vis Viva Controversy," Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 1, no. 2 (August): 135-44.
• 2 1971. "Leibniz and the Vis Viva Controversy," Isis, 62, no. 1 (Spring): 21-35.
• 3 1973. "The Decline of Cartesianism in Mechanics: The Leibnizian-Cartesian Debates," Isis, 64, no. 3 (Fall): 356-73.
• 4 1973. "The Leibnizian-Newtonian Debates: Natural Philosophy and Social Psychology," British Journal for the History of Science, 6, no. 24 (December): 343-77.
• 5 1974. "Bernoulli's Springs and their Repercussions in the Vis Viva Controversy," Actes du XIIIe Congres International d'Histoire des Sciences, 1971 (Moscow, 1974), sect. V, pp. 309-315.
• 6 1974. "Leibniz's Concept of Force: Physics and Metaphysics," Akten des II. Internationalen Leibniz-Kongresses, Hannover, July, 1972 (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag), band 2, pp. 143-49.
• 7 1975. "The Conservative Character of Science and Technology," Interface Journal: Alternatives in Higher Education, 1, no. 2 (Fall): 17-22.
• 8 1977. "Madame du Chatelet's Metaphysics and Mechanics," Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 8, no. 1 (May): 29-48.
• 9 1977. Review of Pierre Costabel, Leibniz and Dynamics: The Texts of 1692 (London: Methuen, 1973) in The British Journal for the History of Science, 10, no. 2 (July): 176-7.

Articles (As Carolyn Merchant)

• 10 1979. "The Vitalism of Anne Conway: Its Impact on Leibniz' Concept of the Monad," Journal of the History of Philosophy, 17, no. 3 (July): 255-69.
• 11 1979. "The Vitalism of Francis Mercury van Helmont: Its Influence on Leibniz's Concept of the Monad," Ambix, 26, no. 3 (November): 170-83.
• 12 1981. "Earthcare: Women and the Environmental Movement," Environment, 23, no. 5 (June): 7-13, 38-40.
• 13 1982. "Isis Consciousness Raised," Isis, 72, no. 268 (September): 398-409.
• 14 1983. "Hydraulic Technologies and the Agricultural Transformation of the English Fens," Environmental Review, 7, no. 2 (Summer): 165-77.
• 15 1983. "Women, Nature, and Domination," in Jan Zimmerman, ed., Future, Technology, and Woman. New York: Praeger, pp. 30-7.
• 16 1983. "Mining the Earth's Womb," in Joan Rothschild, ed., Machina Ex Dea. New York: Pergamon Press, pp. 99-117.
• 17 1984. "Women of the Progressive Conservation Movement, 1900-1916," Environmental Review, 8, no. 1 (Spring): 57-85. (Also guest editorial 17a)
• 18 1984. "Isis nya medvetenhet," Kvinnovetenskaplig tidschrift, 4 (1984): 7-16. (Swedish translation of "Isis Consciousness Raised")
• 19 1985. "Feminism and Ecology," in Bill Devall and George Sessions, eds., Deep Ecology. Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith books, pp. 229-31.
• 20 1985. "Women of the Progressive Conservation Crusade, 1900-1915," in Kendall E. Bailes, ed., Environmental History: Critical Issues in Comparative Perspective. New York: University Press of America, pp. 153-75.
• 21 1985. Review of Anne Conway, Principles of the Most Ancient and Recent Philosophy, in Isis, 76, no. 282 (Spring): 275-6.
• 22 1985. "Fred Med Jorden: Kvinnor och miljororelsen i Norden," with Abby Peterson, Natur och Samhalle, 11, no. 34 (December): 12-18.
• 23 1986. "Peace with the Earth: Women and the Environmental Movement in Sweden," with Abby Peterson, Women's Studies International Forum, 9, no. 5-6: 465-79.
• 24 1986. "Anne Conway, Quaker and Philosopher," Guilford Review, No. 23 (Spring): 2-13.
• 25 1986. "Perspective: Restoration and Reunion with Nature," Restoration and Management Notes, vol. IV (Winter): 68-70.
• 26 1987. "Ecofeminism," The New Internationalist, No. 171 (May): 18-19. (26a Reprinted in Utne Reader, 1989)
• 27 1987. "The Theoretical Structure of Ecological Revolutions," Environmental Review, 11, no. 4 (Winter): 265-74.
• 28 1989. "Entwurf einer okologischen Ethik" (Outline of an Ecological Ethic), in Geist und Natur. Munich: Scherz Verlag, pp. 135-44.
• 29 1990. "Environmental Ethics and Political Conflict: A View From California," Environmental Ethics, 12, no. 1 (Spring): 45-68.
• 30 1990. "The Realm of Social Relations: Production, Reproduction, and Gender in Environmental Transformations," in B. L. Turner, II, ed., The Earth As Transformed by Human Action. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 673-84.
• 31 1990. "Ecofeminism and Feminist Theory," in Irene Diamond and Gloria Ornstein, eds., Reweaving the World: The Emergence of Ecofeminism. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, pp. 100-5.
• 32 1990. "Gender and Environmental History," Journal of American History, 76, no. 4 (March): 1117-21.
• 33 1990. "Is it Time for an Earth Ethic?" Vassar Quarterly (Spring): 10-14.
• 34 1990. "Gaia's Last Gasp," Tikkun (March, April): 66-69.
• 34a 1991. "Women and Nature," in Andrew Dobson, ed., The Green Reader. San Francisco: Mercury House, pp. 258-261.
• 35 1991. "Restoration and Reunion with Nature," in Bill Willers, ed., Learning to Listen to the Land. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, pp. 206-11.
• 36 1991. "The Death of Nature," in John Zerzan and Alice Carnes, eds., Questioning Technology. Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, pp. 36-40.
• 36a 1992. "Ecofeminism," in Terra Femina. Rio de Janeiro. (36b Portuguese translation)
• 37 1992. "Perspectives on Ecofeminism," Environmental Action, 24, no. 2 (Summer): 18-19.
• 38 1992. "Okofeminisme og feministisk teori," Vardoger, 21 (May): 106-111. (Norwegian translation)
• 39 1992. "The World an Organism," in Shirley Nicholson and Brenda Rosen, eds., Gaia's Hidden Life. Wheaton, Ill.: Quest Books, pp. 163-85.
• 40 1993. "Gender and Environmental History," in Susan J. Armstrong and Richard G. Botzler, ed., Environmental Ethics. New York: McGraw Hill, pp. 192-6.
• 41 1993. "The Death of Nature," in Michael Zimmerman et al, ed., Environmental Philosophy. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Prentice Hall, pp. 268-83.
• 42 1993. "Ecofeminism and Feminist Theory," in Peter C. List, ed., Radical Environmentalism. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, pp. 49-55.
• 43 1993. "Genero e historia ambiental," in Manuel Gonsalez De Molina and Juan Martinez Alier, eds., Historia Y Ecologia. Madrid: Marcial Pons, pp. 111-7. (Spanish)
• 44 1993. "Outline of an Ecological Ethic," in Spirit and Nature. Tokyo: Bokutakusha, pp. 201-210. (Japanese)
• 45 1994. "Ecological Revolutions," in Kenneth Dolbeare, ed., American Political Thought. 2nd ed. Chatham, N.J.: Chatham House Publishers.
• 46 1994. "Radical Ecology: Conclusions," in Michael Redclift and Graham Woodgate, eds., The Sociology of the Environment. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, vol. 2, pp. 604-609.
• 47 1994. "On Ecofeminism," in Donna J. Wood, ed., Business and Society, 2nd ed. New York: Harper Collins, p. 35.
• 48 1995. "Reinventing Eden: Western Culture as a Recovery Narrative," in William Cronon, ed., Uncommon Ground. New York: W.W. Norton, pp. 132-59.
• 49 1995. "Viewing the World as Process," A Conversation with Suzi Gablick, in Conversations Before the End of Time. London: Thames and Hudson, pp. 226-46.
• 50 1995. "Nature as Female," in Michael Redclift and Graham Woodgate, eds., The Sociology of the Environment. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, vol. 2, pp. 185-230.
• 51 1995. "Ecofeminism," in Kate Mehuron and Gary Percesepe, eds., Free Spirits. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, Ch. V, sec. 22, pp. 311-28.
• 52 1996. "The Global Ecological Crisis," in Richard Genseth and Edward Lotto, eds., Constructing Nature. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, pp. 408-25.
• 53 1996. "Environmental Ethics and Political Conflict: A View From California," in Lawrence M. Hinman, ed., Contemporary Moral Issues. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, pp. 516-536.
• 54 1996. "Chaos, Gaia, and Partnership Ethics," in John Keilch, ed., The Environmental Spirit. Berkeley, CA: University of California, pp. 355-66.
• 55 1996. "Partnership Ethics: Earthcare for a New Millennium," in Terra Femina: Insights, no. 7. Rio de Janeiro: IDAC, pp. 1-19.
• 56 1997. "Radical Ecology," in Nancy S. Love, ed., Dogmas and Dreams. 2nd ed. London: Chatham House, pp. 606-615.
• 57 1997. "Fish First!: The Changing Ethics of Ecosystem Management," Human Ecology Review, 4, no. 1 (Spring/Summer): 25-30.
• 58 1997. "The Theoretical Structure of Ecological Revolutions," in Char Miller and Hal Rothman, eds., Out of the Woods. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, pp. 18-27.
• 59 1998. "The Death of Nature: A Retrospective," Organization and Environment, 11, no. 2 (June): 198-206.
• 60 1998. "Partnership With Nature," Landscape, Special Issue, 69-71.
• 61 1999. "Forward," Human Nature: Biology, Culture, and Environmental History. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, pp. xi-xiv.
• 62 1999. "Fish First!: The Changing Ethics of Ecosystem Management," in Paul Hirt and Dale Goble, eds., Northwest Lands and Peoples. Seattle: University of Washington Press, pp. 295-308.
• 63 1999. "Partnership Ethics and Cultural Discourse: Women and the Earth Summit," in Frank Fisher and Maarten Hajer, eds., Living With Nature. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 204-23.
• 64 1999. "Ecological Revolutions," in William Willers, ed., Unmanaged Landscapes. Washington, D.C: Island Press, pp. 164-70.
• 65 1999. "Emancipation and Ecology," in Mark J. Smith, ed., Thinking Through the Environment. New York: Routledge, pp. 303-312.
• 66 2000. "Isis' Consciousness Raised," in Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, ed., History of Women in the Sciences. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 11-22.
• 67 2000. "Partnership Ethics: Business and the Environment," in Patricia Werhane, ed., Environmental Challenges to Business. Bowling Green, OH: Society for Business Ethics, pp. 7-18.
• 68 2000. "Population and the Environment: Issues in Developed Countries," in Population and the Environment. Berkeley: Center for Sustainable Resource Development, pp. 54-58.
• 69 2001. "Dominion Over Nature," in Ingrid Bartsch and Muriel Lederman, eds., The Gender and Science Reader. New York: Routledge, pp. 68-81.
• 70 2001. "The Death of Nature," in Michael E. Zimmerman, et al, eds., Environmental Philosophy. 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, pp. 273-286.
• 71 2001. "Ecofeminism and Feminist Theory," in Michael Boylan, ed., Environmental Ethics. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, pp. 76-83.
• 72 2001. "Partnership, Narrative, and Environmental Justice" (interview by J. Scott Bryson), Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, 3, no. 1 (Fall): 124-130.
• 73 2001. "Fate of the Abenaki in the Colonial Ecological Revolution," in Chris J. Magoc, ed., So Glorious a Landscape. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources Books, pp. 31-38.
• 74 2002. "Narratives About Nature," interview with Russell Schoch, California Monthly, 112, no. 6, pp. 26-30.
• 75 2002. "Dominion over Nature," in Richard C. Foltz, ed., Worldviews, Religion, and the Environment. New York: Wadsworth/Thomson, pp. 39-49.
• 76 2002. "Working Together for Nature," On Campus With Women, 31, no. 4 (Summer): 8, 16.
• 77 2003. "Mining the Earth's Womb," in Robert C. Scharff and Valerie Dusek, eds., The Philosophy of Technology. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 417-28.
• 78 2003. "Shades of Darkness: Race and Environmental History," Environmental History, 8, no. 3 (July): 380-94.
• 79 2003. "Women and the Environment," Green Leaves: Rachel's Network Quarterly, 2, no. 3 (September): 5.
• 80 2005. "Forward," in Dianne D. Glave and Mark Stoll, ed., To Love the Wind and the Rain. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, pp. ix-xii.
• 81 2005. "Workspace: Carolyn Merchant, The Past in the Present," History of Science Society Newsletter (Fall), pp. 10-11.
• 82 2006. "The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution," in Lisa Sarasohn, ed., The Scientific Revolution. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, pp. 149-156.
• 83 2006. "Ecohistory: New Theories and Approaches," 20th International Congress of Historical Sciences. Sydney, NSW: Incompass CD, pp. 61-66.
• 84 2006. "The Scientific Revolution and the Death of Nature," special Focus section, Isis, 97, no. 3 (September): 513-533.
• 84a 2006. "Eve: Nature and Narrative," in David Freeland Duke, ed., Canadian Environmental History. Toronto: Canadian Scholar's Press, pp. 44-69.
• 85 2007. "Natura, Femminile, Plurale: Intervista a Carolyn Merchant," I Frutti di Demetra. Naples, vol. 14: 81-90.
• 86 2008. "Eco-femminismo," La Camera Blu. Naples: University of Naples, no. 3 (May-December): 48-58.
• 87 2008. "Gaia: Ecofeminism and the Earth," in Glenn Adelson et al, eds., Environment: An Interdisciplinary Anthology. New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. 616-621.
• 88 2008. "Secrets of Nature: The Baconian Debates Revisited," Journal of the History of Ideas, 69, no. 1 (January): 147-162.
• 89 2008. Review of Pierre Hadot, The Veil of Isis, in The British Journal for the History of Science, 41, no. 2 (June): 288-289.
• 90 2008. "'The Violence of Impediments:' Francis Bacon and the Origins of Experimentation," Isis, 99, no. 4 (December): 731-760.
• 91 2009. "Melting Ice: Climate Change and the Humanities," with Jennifer Wells, Confluence, XIV, no. 2 (Spring): 13-27.
• 92 2010. "Fish First!: The Changing Ethics of Ecosystem Management," in Peter G. Brown and Jeremy J. Schmidt, ed., Water Ethics. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, Ch. 21, pp. 227-240.
• 93 2010. "George Bird Grinnell's Audubon Society: Bridging the Gender Divide in Conservation," Environmental History, 15, no. 1 (January): 3-30.
• 94 2010. "Ecofeminism and the Philosophy of Nature," in David R. Keller, ed., Environmental Ethics: The Big Questions. New York: Wiley, Ch. 36, pp. 291-300.
• 95 2010. "The BP Oil Spill: Economy Versus Ecology," ASEH News, 21, no. 2 (Summer).
• 96 2010. "Climate Change and the Humanities: A Case for the Arts," Townsend Center for the Humanities. Berkeley (February/March), pp. 23-24.
• 97 2012. "Women and Nature: Responding to the Call," in Joe Bowersox and Karen Arabas, ed., Is Nature Calling? Santa Rosa, CA: Polebridge Press.
• 98 2013. "Francis Bacon and the Vexations of Art: Experimentation as Intervention," British Journal for the History of Science, 46, no. 4 (December): 551-599.
• 99 2012. "Partnership," in Women's Memory, online journal of the University of Venice (Italy).
• 100 2013. "Mining the Earth's Womb," in Robert Scharff and Valerie Dusek, eds., The Philosophy of Technology. 2nd ed. New York: John Wiley, Ch. 36, pp. 417-428.
• 101 2013. "Gaia: Ecofeminism and the Earth," in Christian R. Weisser, ed., Sustainable Writing. New York: Bedford, St. Martin.
• 102 2014. "Environmental Ethics and Political Conflict" in Ljubinko Pusic, ed., Environmental Sociology. Novi Sad, Serbia: Medi Terran, Ch. 6, pp. 234-256.
• 103 2014. "Ecofeminism and Feminist Theory," in Michael Boylan, ed., Environmental Ethics. 2nd ed. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, Ch. 3B, pp. 59-63.
• 104 2015. "Nature as Female," in Kenneth Hiltner, ed., Ecocriticism: The Essential Reader. New York: Routledge, Ch. 2, pp. 10-34.
• 105 2019. "Nature and Culture," in Louvre Abu Dhabi: A World History of Art. Paris: Editions Skira, pp. 115-121.
• 106 2018. "Carolyn Merchant Reflects on the Legacy of Ecofeminism," Interview by Sydney Schoonover, Daily Californian.
• 107 2019. "Afterword," in Kenneth Worthy, Elizabeth Allison, and Whitney A. Bauman, eds., After the Death of Nature. New York: Routledge, pp. 277-300.
• 108 2020. Review of J. Baird Callicott et al, Greek Natural Philosophy, in WorldViews, 24, no. 1: 117-125.
• 109 2022. "Margaret Cavendish: Natural Philosopher and Feminist," in Lisa Walters and Brandie Siegfried, eds., Margaret Cavendish: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 19-32.