Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History
"InBeyond Nature's Housekeepers, Nancy Unger brings together a breadth of scholarship that touches on American women's experience and impact on the environment in a short, well-written book. The relatively brief chapters with vivid anecdotes are perfect for an undergraduate audience." --PacificHistorical Review"With this book, Unger has undertaken a formidable task that could have failed in the hands of a less-accomplished historian. She persuasively demonstrates that there is a distinct women-centered understanding of environmentalism and the people's relationship to the environment that transcends time and place and that this perspective must be incorporated into any analysis of environmental history." --American Historical Review"Unger's narrative is a go-to reference for anyone interested in the socially constructed and physical ways both sex and gender intersect with nature in the United States. It is an important work that will be a reference in the field for quite some time." --Environment and History"In this rich, learned, and lively synthesis, Nancy C. Unger reveals the astoundingly varied, crucial roles women have played throughout American environmental history.   Where we have heretofore seen glimpses and snippets of this immense and still evolving story, Unger gives us a sweeping narrative to savor and ponder.  A marvelous achievement!" --Virginia Scharff, University of New Mexico and Autry National Center"In the United States sex, sexuality, and gender have mattered in the way that women's concerns and activism in regard to environmental issues have been framed and received by the larger culture.Beyond Nature's Housekeepersprovides a comprehensive overview of the subject." --Vera Norwood, author ofMade From This Earth: American Women and Nature