This book highlights the unique and complex role women have played in the shaping of the American environment from pre-Columbian Native Americans to present day environmental justice activists.
This book highlights the unique and complex role women have played in the shaping of the American environment from pre-Columbian Native Americans to present day environmental justice activists.
Nancy C. Unger is Associate Professor of History at Santa Clara University. She is the author of the prize-winning biography Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer, and book review editor of The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
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* Acknowledgments * Introduction: Sex, Sexuality, and Gender as Useful Category of Analysis in Environmental History * 1. Gendered Changes to the Land in Pre-Columbian and Colonial America * 2. The North and the South from Revolution to Civil War * 3. The Frontier Environment as Test of Prescribed Gender Spheres * 4. "Nature's Housekeepers": Progressive-Era Women as Midwives to the Conservation Movement and Environmental Consciousness * 5. Reasserting Female Authority: Women and the Environment from the 1920s through World War II * 6. Middle Class White Women in the Cold War * 7. Women's Alternative Environments: Fostering Gender Identity by Striving to Remake the World * 8. The Modern Environmental Justice Movement * Epilogue: Women, Gender, and the Environment in the 21st Century * Notes * Bibliography * Index
* Acknowledgments * Introduction: Sex, Sexuality, and Gender as Useful Category of Analysis in Environmental History * 1. Gendered Changes to the Land in Pre-Columbian and Colonial America * 2. The North and the South from Revolution to Civil War * 3. The Frontier Environment as Test of Prescribed Gender Spheres * 4. "Nature's Housekeepers": Progressive-Era Women as Midwives to the Conservation Movement and Environmental Consciousness * 5. Reasserting Female Authority: Women and the Environment from the 1920s through World War II * 6. Middle Class White Women in the Cold War * 7. Women's Alternative Environments: Fostering Gender Identity by Striving to Remake the World * 8. The Modern Environmental Justice Movement * Epilogue: Women, Gender, and the Environment in the 21st Century * Notes * Bibliography * Index
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