Beyond nature's housekeepers : American women in environmental history /
Unger, Nancy C.
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
c2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Women and the environment
Sex role
Nature
Human ecology
Conservation of natural resources
Environmentalism