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Beyond nature's housekeepers : American women in environmental history / Nancy C. Unger.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Unger, Nancy C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women and the environment--United States--History.
- Women and the environment.
- Sex role--United States--History.
- Sex role.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on--United States--History.
- Nature.
- Human ecology--United States--History.
- Human ecology.
- Conservation of natural resources--United States--History.
- Conservation of natural resources.
- Environmentalism--United States--History.
- Environmentalism.
- United States--Environmental conditions--History.
- United States.
- United States--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (680 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
- Summary:
- From pre-Columbian times to the environmental justice movements of the present, women and men frequently responded to the environment and environmental issues in profoundly different ways. Although both environmental history and women's history are flourishing fields, explorations of the synergy produced by the interplay between environment and sex, sexuality, and gender are just beginning. Offering more than biographies of great women in environmental history, Beyond Nature's Housekeepers examines the intersections that shaped women's unique environmental concerns and activism and that framed
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-998600-2
- 1-283-84843-0
- 0-19-998596-0
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