Sex, Race, and Merchant’s Scientific Revolution

Session Submission Type: Complete Panel

Abstract

Profs. Ann M. Little (Colorado State University) and Molly A. Warsh (U. Pittsburgh) have organized two roundtables exploring the legacy of Carolyn Merchant's call for more attention to gender in environmental history. Each roundtable address distinct aspects of Merchant's body of work and its enduring influence on current scholarship. Ann Little will chair panel 1, titled "Sex, Race, and Merchant’s Scientific Revolutions " and Molly Warsh will chair panel 2, titled "Ecofeminism, Reproductive Labor, and Gender in the Human and non-Human World: Merchant's Enduring Legacy"

Sub Unit

• ASEH Annual Conference

Individual Presentations

• The Erasure of the Female and “The Conservation Cause” - Rachel D Kline, Public historian, USDA Forest Service

• Herland/Hisland: Merchant and the Gendering of Space - Amy Hay, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley

• The Ongoing "Crisis of Racial Awareness" in Environmental History - Jasmine Kiara Brown, Michigan State University

Chair

• Ann M. Little, Colorado State University