Beyond nature's housekeepers : American women in environmental history
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Published
New York : Oxford University Press, [2012].
Physical Desc
xvi, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Kent Denver Upper School - NONFICTION
304.2 UNG
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LC Subjects
Conservation of natural resources -- United States -- History.
Environmentalism -- United States -- History.
Human ecology -- United States -- History.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- United States -- History.
Sex role -- United States -- History.
United States -- Environmental conditions -- History.
United States -- Social conditions.
Women and the environment -- United States -- History.
Environmentalism -- United States -- History.
Human ecology -- United States -- History.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- United States -- History.
Sex role -- United States -- History.
United States -- Environmental conditions -- History.
United States -- Social conditions.
Women and the environment -- United States -- History.
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Published
New York : Oxford University Press, [2012].
Format
Book
Language
English
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-303) and index.
Description
From Pre-Columbian Times to the environmental justice movements of the present, women and men frequently responded to the environment and environmental issues in profoundly different ways. Although both environment history and women's history are flourishing fields, explorations of the synergy produced by the interplay between environment and sex, sexuality, and sender arc just beginning. Offering more than biographies of great women in environmental history, Beyond Natures Housekeepers examines the intersections that shaped womens unique environmental concerns and activism and that framed the way the larger culture responded. Women featured include Native Americans, colonists, enslaved field workers, pioneers, homemakers, municipal housekeepers, hunters, nature writers, soil conservationists, scientists, migrant laborers, nuclear protestors, and environmental justice activists. As women, they fared, thought, and acted in ways complicated by social, political, and economic norms, as well as issues of sexuality and childbearing. Nancy C. Unger reveals how women have played a unique role, for better and sometimes for worse, in the shaping of the American environment.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Unger, N. C. (2012). Beyond nature's housekeepers: American women in environmental history . Oxford University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Unger, Nancy C. 2012. Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History. Oxford University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Unger, Nancy C. Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History Oxford University Press, 2012.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Unger, Nancy C. Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History Oxford University Press, 2012.
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