| Description |
xxii, 345 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Development of western resources |
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Development of western resources.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Virginia J. Scharff -- Part I. Representation -- Man and nature! Sex secrets of environmental history / Virginai J. Scharff -- Naturalizing power: land and sexual violence along William Byrd's dividing line / Paige Raibmon -- Thinking like Mount Rushmore: sexuality and gender in the Republican landscape / Peter Boag -- Part II. Bodies -- Scaling new heights: heroic firemen, gender, and the urban environment, 1875-1900 / Mark Tebeau -- "New men in body and soul": the Civilian Conservation Corps and the transformation of male bodies and the body politic / Bryant Simon -- Voices from the spring: Silent Spring and the ecological turn in American health / Maril Hazlett -- Gender transformed: endocrine disruptors in the environment / Nancy Langston -- Part III. Consumption -- Putting gender on the table: food and the family life of nature / Douglas C. Sackman -- From snow bunnies to shred betties: gender, consumption, and the skiing landscape / Annie Gilbert Coleman -- Part IV. Politics -- "She touched fifty million lives": Gene Stratton-Porter and nature conservation / Amy Green -- Nature's lovers: the erotics of lesbian land communities in Oregon, 1974-1984 / Catherine Kleiner -- Saving Centennial Valley: land gender, and community in the Northern Black Hills / Katherine Jensen -- Steps to an ecology of justice: women's environmental networks across the Santa Cruz River Watershed / Giovanna Di Chiro. |
| Subject |
Human ecology -- Philosophy.
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Philosophy of nature.
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Sex role -- History.
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Sex role -- Environmental aspects.
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Human body -- Social aspects.
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| Added Author |
Scharff, Virginia.
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| ISBN |
070061284X cloth alkaline paper |
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0700612858 paperback alkaline paper |
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