Nature's altars
Subtitle: mountains, gender, and American environmentalism
By: Susan R. Schrepfer.
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lawrence, Kan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
Subjects: Nature conservation -- United States -- History.; Environmentalism -- United States -- History.; Mountains -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-297) and index.
Table of contents: value: Prologue; value: Introduction; value: (En)gendering the wilderness, 1860s-1914; value: Place naming in the High Sierra; value: Masculine sublimes; value: Feminine sublimes; value: Outdoor experiences and the politics of conservation, 1914-1944; value: Mountains as home and garden; value: Mountains as the measure of men; value: In fire, blossoms, and blood; value: In wildness is the preservation of the nation, and the world, 1945-1964; value: Mountain conquest family style; value: Mountains made wilderness.