New perspectives on environmental justice
Subtitle: gender, sexuality, and activism
By: edited by Rachel Stein.
Contributors: Stein, Rachel.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780813534268; 9780813534275
Subjects: Environmental justice; Women environmentalists; Women in politics
Other titles: AS Environmental Center Collection.; Associated Students Collections.
Description: Women make up the vast majority of activists and organizers of grassroots movements fighting against environmental ills that threaten poor and people of color communities. [This] collection of essays ... pays tribute to the ... contributions women have made in these endeavors. The writers offer varied examples of environmental justice issues such as children's environmental-health campaigns, cancer research, AIDS/HIV activism, the Environmental Genome Project, and popular culture, among many others. Each one focuses on gender and sexuality as crucial factors in women's or gay men's activism and applies environmental justice principles to related struggles for sexual justice. Drawing on a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives, the contributors offer multiple vantage points on gender, sexuality, and activism. -Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Property of Associated Students. This item may be checked out from the AS Environmental Center, VU 424.
Table of contents: title: Toward a queer ecofeminism / Greta Gaard; title: Women, sexuality, and environmental justice in American history / Nancy C. Unger; title: Feminist theory and environmental justice / Robert R.M. Verchick; title: Witness to truth: Black women heeding the call for environmental justice / Valerie Ann Kaalund; title: The role of gender, race/ethnicity, and class in activists' perceptions of environmental justice / Diane-Michele Prindeville; title: Sexual politics and environmental justice: lesbian separatists in rural Oregon / Catriona Sandilands; title: Toxic bodies? ACT UP's disruption of the heteronormative landscape of the nation / Beth Berila; title: Producing "Roundup Ready®" communities? human genome research and environmental justice policy / Giovanna Di Chiro; title: Public eyes: investigating the causes of breast cancer / Marcy Jane Knopf-Newman; title: Gender, asthma politics, and urban environmental justice activism / Julie Sze; title: No remedy for the Inuit: accountability for environmental harms under U.S. and international law / Anne E. Lucas; title: Bodily invasions: gene trading and organ theft in Octavia Butler and Nalo Hopkinson's speculative fiction / Rachel Stein; title: Home everywhere and the injured body of the world: the subversive humor of Blue Vinyl / Arlene Plevin; title: "Lo que quiero es tierra": longing and belonging in Cherríe Moraga's ecological vision / Priscilla Solis Ybarra; title: Detecting toxic environments: gay mystery as environmental justice / Katie Hogan; title: "The power is yours, planeteers!" race, gender, and sexuality in children's environmental popular culture / Noël Sturgeon.