{"product_id":"rachel-carson-and-the-power-of-queer-love-hardcover","title":"Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLida Maxwell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow \u003ci\u003eSilent Spring\u003c\/i\u003e stands as a monument to a unique, loving relationship between Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, and how such love underpins a new environmental politics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfter the success of her first bestseller, \u003ci\u003eThe Sea Around Us\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this moving new book, Lida Maxwell explores their letters to reveal how Carson's masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eSilent Spring\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eSilent Spring\u003c\/i\u003e possible.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eRachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSilent Spring\u003c\/i\u003e's expos? 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLida Maxwell\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Political Science \u0026amp; Women's, Gender, \u0026amp; Sexuality Studies at Boston University and the author of \u003ci\u003eInsurgent Truth: Chelsea Manning and the Politics of Outsider Truth-Telling\u003c\/i\u003e (2019), among other books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.6 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 28, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52689246880077,"sku":"9781503640535","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/jrSj2sA1KE9781503640535.webp?v=1761960050","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/rachel-carson-and-the-power-of-queer-love-hardcover","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}