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- Title
Rachel Carson's Legacy: Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and Gender Concerns.
- Authors
Langston, Nancy
- Abstract
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring ignited a controversy over synthetic chemical residues, which illustrates several important elements of gender in Carson's legacy. First, Carson's approaches in Silent Spring challenged traditional gender stereotypes. Second, the reception to Silent Spring reveals assumptions about gender that influenced the ways in which Carson's critics understood human and environmental health. Finally, endocrine disrupting chemicals had the potential to disrupt sexual differentiation in exposed animals. Two of Carson's core insights - the transgenerational effects of synthetic chemicals and the ecological context of human health - have continuing relevance for understanding the environmental and human health effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals.
- Subjects
SILENT Spring (Book : Carson); CARSON, Rachel, 1907-1964; ENVIRONMENTAL health; PESTICIDE toxicology; PESTICIDES &; wildlife; POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL risk assessment; ENVIRONMENTAL regulations
- Publication
GAIA: Ecological Perspectives for Science & Society, 2012, Vol 21, Issue 3, p225
- ISSN
0940-5550
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.14512/gaia.21.3.14