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Beyond nature's housekeepers : American women in environmental history / Nancy C. Unger.
Author
Unger, Nancy C.
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Language
English
Published/Created
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Description
xvi, 319 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Architecture Library - Remote Storage (ReCAP): Architecture Library Use Only
GF13.3.U6 U54 2012
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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
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United States
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History
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Nature
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Effect of human beings on
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United States
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History
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Human ecology
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United States
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History
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Conservation of natural resources
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United States
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History
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Environmentalism
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United States
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History
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United States
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Environmental conditions
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Summary note
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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Includes bibliographical references 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.
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ISBN
9780199735068 ((acid-free paper))
0199735069 ((acid-free paper))
9780199735075 ((pbk. ; : acid-free paper))
0199735077 ((pbk. ; : acid-free paper))
LCCN
2012008759
OCLC
781432180
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