Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History

by Nancy C. Unger

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199735077
• ISBN13: 9780199735075
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"