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Beyond nature's housekeepers : American women in environmental history /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Sex, Sexuality, and Gender as Useful Category of Analysis in Environmental History
- Gendered Changes to the Land in Pre-Columbian and Colonial America
- The North and the South from Revolution to Civil War
- The Frontier Environment as Test of Prescribed Gender Spheres
- "Nature's Housekeepers" : Progressive-Era Women as Midwives to the Conservation Movement and Environmental Consciousness
- Reasserting Female Authority : Women and the Environment from the 1920s through World War II
- Middle Class White Women in the Cold War
- Women's Alternative Environments : Fostering Gender Identity by Striving to Remake the World
- The Modern Environmental Justice Movement
- Epilogue: Women, Gender, and the Environment in the 21st Century.