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Beyond nature's housekeepers : Beyond Nature's Housekeepers : American women in environmental history

Title
Beyond nature's housekeepers : Beyond Nature's Housekeepers : American women in environmental history / Nancy C. Unger.
Author
Unger, Nancy C. Unger, Nancy C.
Publication
New York : Oxford University Press : Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, c2012, 2012/10/05.

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Description
xvi, 319 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Women and the environment > United States > History
  • Sex role > United States > History
  • Nature > Effect of human beings on > History. > United States
  • Human ecology > United States > History
  • Conservation of natural resources > United States > History
  • Environmentalism > United States > History
  • United States > Environmental conditions > History
  • United States > Social conditions
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
Call Number
JFE 12-8074
ISBN
  • 9780199735068
  • 0199735069 : HRD (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2012008759
OCLC
BK0011060615
Author
Unger, Nancy C. Unger, Nancy C.
Title
Beyond nature's housekeepers : Beyond Nature's Housekeepers : American women in environmental history / Nancy C. Unger.
Imprint
New York : Oxford University Press : Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, c2012, 2012/10/05.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 12-8074
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