ISBN:
0199985960
,
9780199985968
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 319 pages)
,
illustrations
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Unger, Nancy C Beyond nature's housekeepers
DDC:
304.2082/0973
Keywords:
Women and the environment History
;
Sex role History
;
Nature Effect of human beings on
;
History
;
Human ecology History
;
Conservation of natural resources History
;
Environmentalism History
;
Ecology
;
Environmentalism
;
Human ecology
;
Nature ; Effect of human beings on
;
Sex role
;
Social conditions
;
Women and the environment
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Human Geography
;
Conservation of natural resources
;
History
;
United States Social conditions
;
United States Environmental conditions
;
History
;
United States
Abstract:
Introduction: Sex, Sexuality, and Gender as Useful Category of Analysis in Environmental History -- Gendered Changes to the Land in Pre-Columbian and Colonial America -- The North and the South from Revolution to Civil War -- The Frontier Environment as Test of Prescribed Gender Spheres -- "Nature's Housekeepers" : Progressive-Era Women as Midwives to the Conservation Movement and Environmental Consciousness -- Reasserting Female Authority : Women and the Environment from the 1920s through World War II -- Middle Class White Women in the Cold War -- Women's Alternative Environments : Fostering Gender Identity by Striving to Remake the World -- The Modern Environmental Justice Movement -- Epilogue: Women, Gender, and the Environment in the 21st Century.
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
