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PublisherStanford University Press

ISBN-101503640531

ISBN-139781503640535

eBay Product ID (ePID)27065561339

Product Key Features

Number of Pages176 Pages

Publication NameRachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2025

SubjectEnvironmental Conservation & Protection, History & Theory, Political, Life Sciences / Biology

TypeTextbook

AuthorLida Maxwell

Subject AreaNature, Political Science, Philosophy, Science

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight13.4 Oz

Item Length8.9 in

Item Width5.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2024-036188

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"In this stirring, often revelatory account of Rachel Carson's queer relationship with Dorothy Freeman, Maxwell challenges us to ask for more--more pleasure, more beauty, more wonder, more mystery--for ourselves and the earth."--Sabrina Imbler, author of How Far the Light Reaches, "Maxwell makes crucial interventions into the study of ecological destruction by placing heteronormativity at its center." ---Elisabeth Anker, author of Ugly Freedoms, "It is no longer enough to recycle or compost, or to shift our consumption to less energy-intensive items; we need to desire otherwise and reshape our cities and pastimes to excite other desires. This book offers an unusual and frequently moving reading of Rachel Carson to shift the tenor of climate writing today." --Lisa Disch, author of Making Constituencies, "But the point of the book isn't that we should take individual action--it's about broader structures and narratives. Maxwell's book holds lessons for all readers about acknowledging, and then escaping, the structures that ensnare us."--Brooke Borel, Scientific American, " Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love promotes harmony with nature through an impassioned fusion of biography, cultural critique, and environmental advocacy."--Rebecca Foster, Foreword Reviews, "Reading Carson and Freeman's letters, Maxwell declares, have taught her that 'queer love can change the world.' An impassioned analysis."-- Kirkus Reviews, "It's not an exaggeration to say that Maxwell's work completely changed how I move through my daily life: who I love, how I love, and the way I think about the non-human world around me."--Liza Yeager, radio producer and writer, "This wonderfully insightful consideration of Rachel Carson's loves reveals the enduring--and urgent--possibilities within her brilliant work."--Michelle Nijhuis, author of Beloved Beasts, "Rachel Carson's environmentalist tract Silent Spring was profoundly influenced by her romantic relationship with her neighbor Dorothy Freeman, according to this bracing treatise.... A stimulating blend of biography and queer theory, this intrigues."-- Publishers Weekly

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal508.092

Table Of Content1. Queer Love in Southport 2. Wondrous Revelation 3. Loving Use 4. Environmental Desire 5. Heteronormativity Is a Climate Issue Acknowledgments Notes Index

SynopsisHow Silent Spring stands as a monument to a unique, loving relationship between Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, and how such love underpins a new environmental politics After the success of her first bestseller, The Sea Around Us , Rachel Carson settled in Southport, Maine. The married couple Dorothy and Stanley Freeman had a cottage nearby, and the trio quickly became friends. Their extensive and evocative correspondence shows that Dorothy and Rachel did something more: they fell in love. In this moving new book, Lida Maxwell explores their letters to reveal how Carson's masterpiece, Silent Spring , grew from the love these women shared for their wild surroundings and, vitally and increasingly, for each other. Carson had already demonstrated a profound environmental awareness by the time she purchased her home in Maine; Maxwell proposes that it took her love for Dorothy to open up a more powerful space for critique. As their love unsettled their heteronormative ideas of bourgeois life, it enabled Carson to develop an increasingly critical view of capitalism and its effects on nonhuman nature and human lives alike, and it was this evolution that made the advocacy of Silent Spring possible. In Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love , Silent Spring 's exposé of the dangerous and loveless exhaustion of nature for capitalism's ends is set in bold relief against the lovers' correspondence, in which we see the path toward a more loving use of nature and a transformative political desire that, Maxwell argues, should inform our approach to contemporary environmental crises.

LC Classification NumberQH31.C33M335 2025