This elusive land : women and the Canadian environment / edited by Melody Hessing, Rebecca Raglon and Catriona Sandilands.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hessing, Melody.

Raglon, Rebecca Sue, 1950-

Sandilands, Catriona Alison Hayward, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women and the environment--Canada.

Women and the environment.

Environmentalism--Canada.

Environmentalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (407 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This Elusive Land introduces readers to women's perceptions and experiences of the Canadian natural environment. This multidisciplinary anthology discusses the ways in which women integrate the social and biophysical settings of their lives, featuring a range of contexts and issues in which gender mediates, inspires, and informs a sense of belonging to and in this land. In particular, the historical association of women with "domestic" nature is challenged by the investigation of women's lives in a broad range of environments. The collection begins with an introduction to literatures on women and the environment, and to Canada within ecological feminist conversations. The first section discusses the invisibility of women in traditional accounts of Canada's exploration and settlement, pointing to the literary, historical, and geographic significance of women's experiences in a variety of landscapes. Section two develops the ways in which the natural environment is a source of social and economic livelihood, with particular emphasis on fishery, forestry, agriculture, and parks. The third section explores environmental politics through a feminist perspective. The book concludes with a discussion of new directions for a culturally and ecologically diverse Canadian environment. This book contributes to women's studies through its environmental focus; informs environmental studies with a range of feminist perspectives; and complements Canadian studies by integrating disciplinary perspectives of the Canadian experience from the humanities and social sciences.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction: Women and Environment; Part 1 Explorers and Settlers; 1 Little Goody Two-Shoes: Reassessing the Work of Catharine Parr Traill; 2 Environmentalism, Hermeneutics, and Canadian Imperialism in Agnes Deans Cameron's The New North; 3 Wilderness Wives: Domestic Economy and Women's Participation in Nature; 4 And the Young Man Did Go North ( Unfortunately): Reflections on Issues in Gender and the Academy; Part 2 Making a Living: Making a Life

5 Environmental, Industrial, and Political Restructuring and the Health of Women Processing Workers in Newfoundland's Fishery- Dependent Communities6 Working at the Margins of Forestry: The Gender of Labour Practices on British Columbia's West Coast; 7 People for Pigs in Pleasant-Land: Small- Scale Women Farmers; 8 Where the Mountain Men Meet the Lesbian Rangers: Gender, Nation, and Nature in the Rocky Mountain National Parks; Part 3 Environmental Politics: Issues at Home and Away

9 The Public, the Private, the Planet, and the Province: Women's Quality- of- Life Activism in Urban Southern Ontario10 Desperately Seeking Sisterhood and Sustainability: Creating Transnational Social Learning Spaces for Sustainable Agriculture and Environmental Advocacy; 11 Too Close to Home: Dioxin Contamination of Breast Milk and the Political Agenda; 12 Acting Locally: Mapping and Countermapping toward a Grassroots Feminist Cartography; Part 4 Rethinking the Environment

13 Tracing Amorous Journeys from the Sweetwater to Watson Lake: Environmental Ecstasies of Willa Cather and Aritha van Herk14 The Fall of the Wild? Feminist Perspectives of Canadian Wilderness Protection; 15 A Vision of Transformation: Ecofeminist Spiritualities in Canada; 16 The Listening World: First Nations Women Writers and the Environment; Conclusion; Bibliography; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes "Bibliography" (p. [341]-364) and index.

ISBN:

0-7748-5119-8

OCLC:

923441482