📗 Libro en inglés RACHEL CARSON AND THE POWER OF QUEER LOVE

How 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 d