This elusive land : women and the Canadian environment /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hessing, Melody, Raglon, Rebecca, Sandilands, Catriona
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2005.
Temas:
Women and the environment > Canada.
Environmentalism > Canada.
Femmes et environnement > Canada.
Environnementalisme > Canada.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
Environmentalism
Women and the environment
Canada
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Women and Environment
  • Part 1 Explorers and Settlers
  • 1 Little Goody Two-Shoes: Reassessing the Work of Catharine Parr Traill
  • 2 Environmentalism, Hermeneutics, and Canadian Imperialism in Agnes Deans Cameronâ€?s The New North
  • 3 Wilderness Wives: Domestic Economy and Womenâ€?s Participation in Nature
  • 4 And the Young Man Did Go North (Unfortunately): Reflections on Issues in Gender and the Academy
  • Part 2 Making a Living: Making a Life
  • 5 Environmental, Industrial, and Political Restructuring and the Health of Women Processing Workers in Newfoundlandâ€?s Fishery- Dependent Communities6 Working at the Margins of Forestry: The Gender of Labour Practices on British Columbiaâ€?s West Coast
  • 7 People for Pigs in Pleasant-Land: Small- Scale Women Farmers
  • 8 Where the Mountain Men Meet the Lesbian Rangers: Gender, Nation, and Nature in the Rocky Mountain National Parks
  • Part 3 Environmental Politics: Issues at Home and Away
  • 9 The Public, the Private, the Planet, and the Province: Womenâ€?s Quality- of- Life Activism in Urban Southern Ontario10 Desperately Seeking Sisterhood and Sustainability: Creating Transnational Social Learning Spaces for Sustainable Agriculture and Environmental Advocacy
  • 11 Too Close to Home: Dioxin Contamination of Breast Milk and the Political Agenda
  • 12 Acting Locally: Mapping and Countermapping toward a Grassroots Feminist Cartography
  • Part 4 Rethinking the Environment
  • 13 Tracing Amorous Journeys from the Sweetwater to Watson Lake: Environmental Ecstasies of Willa Cather and Aritha van Herk14 The Fall of the Wild? Feminist Perspectives of Canadian Wilderness Protection
  • 15 A Vision of Transformation: Ecofeminist Spiritualities in Canada
  • 16 The Listening World: First Nations Women Writers and the Environment
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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