| Description |
xvi, 319 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Physical Medium |
regular print |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-303) and index. |
| 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. |
| 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 environment history and women's history are flourishing fields, explorations of the synergy produced by the interplay between environment and sex, sexuality, and sender arc just beginning. Offering more than biographies of great women in environmental history, Beyond Natures Housekeepers examines the intersections that shaped womens unique environmental concerns and activism and that framed the way the larger culture responded. Women featured include Native Americans, colonists, enslaved field workers, pioneers, homemakers, municipal housekeepers, hunters, nature writers, soil conservationists, scientists, migrant laborers, nuclear protestors, and environmental justice activists. As women, they fared, thought, and acted in ways complicated by social, political, and economic norms, as well as issues of sexuality and childbearing. Nancy C. Unger reveals how women have played a unique role, for better and sometimes for worse, in the shaping of the American environment. |
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Women and the environment -- United States -- History.
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Women and the environment. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Sex role -- United States -- History.
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Sex role. |
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- United States -- History.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on. |
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Human ecology -- United States -- History.
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Human ecology. |
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Conservation of natural resources -- United States -- History.
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Conservation of natural resources. |
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Environmentalism -- United States -- History.
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Environmentalism. |
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United States -- Environmental conditions -- History.
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Environmental conditions. |
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United States -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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Ecology. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Subject |
Gender roles. |
| ISBN |
9780199735068 (acid-free paper) |
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0199735069 (acid-free paper) |
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9780199735075 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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0199735077 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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