Book ID: CBB001320951

Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History (2012)

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Unger, Nancy C. (Author)


Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: xvi + 319 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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 the way the larger culture responded. Women featured include Native Americans, colonists, enslaved field workers, pioneers, homemakers, municipal housekeepers, immigrants, 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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Authors & Contributors
Poole, Leslie Kemp
Wagner, William G.
Verdon, Nicola
Thurs, Daniel Patrick
Short, John Phillip
Sellers, Christopher C.
Concepts
Science and culture
Science and gender
Environmentalism
Conservation of natural resources
Environmental history
Science and society
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
20th century, early
17th century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Russia
Los Angeles (California)
England
London (England)
New York City (New York, U.S.)
Institutions
United States. National Park Service
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