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008 120320s2012 enk b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780199735068 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
020 $a9780199735075 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
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050 00 $aGF13.3.U6$bU54 2012
082 00 $a304.2082/0973$223
100 1 $aUnger, Nancy C.
245 10 $aBeyond nature's housekeepers :$bAmerican women in environmental history /$cNancy C. Unger.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$cc2012.
263 $a1211
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: 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.
650 0 $aWomen and the environment$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aSex role$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aNature$xEffect of human beings on$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aHuman ecology$zUnited States$xHistory.
651 0 $aConservation of natural resources$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aEnvironmentalism$zUnited States$xHistory.
651 0 $aUnited States$xEnvironmental conditions$xHistory.
651 0 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions.