Beyond nature's housekeepers
Subtitle: American women in environmental history
By: Nancy C. Unger
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780199735068; 9780199735075
Subjects: Nature; Women and the environment; Effect of human beings on; Environmentalism; Environmental conditions; Sex role; Social conditions; Human ecology; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Sex, Sexuality, and Gender as Useful Category of Analysis in Environmental History; title: Gendered Changes to the Land in Pre-Columbian and Colonial America; title: The North and the South from Revolution to Civil War; title: The Frontier Environment as Test of Prescribed Gender Spheres; title: "Nature's Housekeepers" : Progressive-Era Women as Midwives to the Conservation Movement and Environmental Consciousness; title: Reasserting Female Authority : Women and the Environment from the 1920s through World War II; title: Middle Class White Women in the Cold War; title: Women's Alternative Environments : Fostering Gender Identity by Striving to Remake the World; title: The Modern Environmental Justice Movement; title: Epilogue: Women, Gender, and the Environment in the 21st Century.