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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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Details
- Description
- xvi, 319 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Women and the environment > United States > History
- Nature > Effect of human beings on > United States > History
- United States > Environmental conditions > History
- Conservation of natural resources > United States > History
- Environmentalism > United States > History
- Human ecology > United States > History
- United States > Social conditions
- Sex role > United States > History
- 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