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

Unger, Nancy C. (Author)

Oxford University Press
Publication date: 2012
Language: English

ISBN: 9780199735068

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

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Science and gender Environmentalism Conservation of natural resources Social class Science and culture Political activists and activism Women in science Environmental history Colonialism Popular culture Science and society 19th century 17th century 18th century 20th century United States

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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Review Flanagan, Maureen A. (2014) Review of "Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History". American Historical Review (p. 167). unapi

Review Mauldin, Erin Stewart (2014) Review of "Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History". History: Reviews of New Books (pp. 87-88). unapi

Review Miller, Susan A. (2014) Review of "Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History". Journal of American History (pp. 1177-1178). unapi

Review Macdonald, Peggy (2015) Review of "Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History". Environmental History (pp. 137-139). unapi

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