Nancy C. Unger

Beyond Nature's Housekeepers (eBook, ePUB)

American Women in Environmental History

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 environmental history and women's history are flourishing fields, explorations of the synergy produced by the interplay between environment and sex, sexuality, and gender are just beginning. Offering more than biographies of great women in environmental history, Beyond Nature's Housekeepers examines the intersections that shaped women's 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, immigrants, 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199986002
• Artikelnr.: 38176536

Autorenporträt

Nancy C. Unger is 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.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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