Unger, Nancy C.
Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• 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.

Subjects:

• Women and the environment — United States — History.
• Sex role — United States — History.
• Nature — Effect of human beings on — United States — History.
• 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.

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