Beyond Nature's Housekeepers - American Women in Environmental History

Zusatztext 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! Informationen zum Autor Nancy C. Unger is Associate Professor of History at Santa Clara University. She is the author of the prize-winning biography Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer, and book review editor of The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Klappentext This book highlights the unique and complex role women have played in the shaping of the American environment from pre-Columbian Native Americans to present day environmental justice activists. Zusammenfassung This book highlights the unique and complex role women have played in the shaping of the American environment from pre-Columbian Native Americans to present day environmental justice activists. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Sex, Sexuality, and Gender as Useful Category of Analysis in Environmental History 1. Gendered Changes to the Land in Pre-Columbian and Colonial America 2. The North and the South from Revolution to Civil War 3. The Frontier Environment as Test of Prescribed Gender Spheres 4. "Nature's Housekeepers": Progressive-Era Women as Midwives to the Conservation Movement and Environmental Consciousness 5. Reasserting Female Authority: Women and the Environment from the 1920s through World War II 6. Middle Class White Women in the Cold War 7. Women's Alternative Environments: Fostering Gender Identity by Striving to Remake the World 8. The Modern Environmental Justice Movement Epilogue: Women, Gender, and the Environment in the 21st Century Notes Bibliography Index

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Nancy C Unger, Nancy C. Unger, Nancy C. (Associate Professor of History Unger, Unger Nancy C.
• Edition: Oxford University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 05.10.2012
• EAN: 9780199735075
• ISBN: 978-0-19-973507-5
• Pages: 320
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Nature, technique > Sciences naturelles; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie; USA, NATURE / Ecology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / General, HISTORY / Women, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Social impact of environmental issues, Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, Gender studies: women and girls