Wow, great article, Phil!
Thanx.

Mitchel


At 11:21 PM 2/20/2019, you wrote:
>More on Rachel Carson:
>
><http://www.isreview.org/issues/57/feat-rachelcarson.shtml>http://www.isreview.org/issues/57/feat-rachelcarson.shtml
>
>On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 8:42 PM Mitchel Cohen 
><<mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>I'm sending this PDF of a quite wonderful piece 
>by Michael B. Smith, "Silence, Miss Carson!" 
>Science, Gender, and the Reception of "Silent 
>Spring", Feminist Studies, Vol. 27, No. 3 
>(Autumn, 2001), pp. 733-752, about the intense 
>"criticism" Rachel Carson received upon 
>publishing Silent Spring in October, 1962.
>
>My essay contrasting Silent Spring with Michael 
>Harrington's The Other America, published the 
>same year, was published Monday in 
><http://www.counterpunch.org/>www.Counterpunch.org 
>. (Scroll down the Left sidebar to find it!)
>
>Here's one letter to The New Yorker that I found 
>to be remarkable, and yet sadly typical:
>
>“Miss Rachel Carson’s reference to the 
>selfishness of insecticide manufacturers 
>probably reflects her Communist sympathies, like 
>a lot of our writers these days. We can live 
>without birds and animals, but, as the current 
>market slump shows, we cannot live without 
>business. As for insects, isn’t it just like a 
>woman to be scared to death of a few little 
>bugs! As long as we have the H-bomb everything will be O.K.”
>
>
>Mitchel Cohen