Seeing Nature through Gender / Edition 1

Seeing Nature through Gender / Edition 1

by Virginia J. Scharff
ISBN-10:
0700612858
ISBN-13:
9780700612857
Pub. Date:
10/31/2003
Publisher:
University Press of Kansas
ISBN-10:
0700612858
ISBN-13:
9780700612857
Pub. Date:
10/31/2003
Publisher:
University Press of Kansas
Seeing Nature through Gender / Edition 1

Seeing Nature through Gender / Edition 1

by Virginia J. Scharff
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Overview

Environmental history has traditionally told the story of Man and Nature. Scholars have too frequently overlooked the ways in which their predominantly male subjects have themselves been shaped by gender. Seeing Nature through Gender here reintroduces gender as a meaningful category of analysis for environmental history, showing how women's actions, desires, and choices have shaped the world and seeing men as gendered actors as well.

In thirteen essays that show how gendered ideas have shaped the ways in which people have represented, experienced, and consumed their world, Virginia Scharff and her coauthors explore interactions between gender and environment in history. Ranging from colonial borderlands to transnational boundaries, from mountaintop to marketplace, they focus on historical representations of humans and nature, on questions about consumption, on environmental politics, and on the complex reciprocal relations among human bodies and changing landscapes. They also challenge the "ecofeminist" position by challenging the notion that men and women are essentially different creatures with biologically different destinies.

Each article shows how a person or group of people in history have understood nature in gendered terms and acted accordingly—often with dire consequences for other people and organisms. Here are considerations of the ways we study sexuality among birds, of William Byrd's masking sexual encounters in his account of an eighteenth-century expedition, of how the ecology of fire in a changing built environment has reshaped firefighters' own gendered identities. Some are playful, as in a piece on the evolution of "snow bunnies" to "shred betties." Others are dead serious, as in a chilling portrait of how endocrine disrupters are reinventing humans, animals, and water systems from the cellular level out.

Aiding and adding significantly to the enterprise of environmental history, Seeing Nature through Gender bridges gender history and environmental history in unexpected ways to show us how the natural world can remake the gendered patterns we've engraved on ourselves and on the planet.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780700612857
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Publication date: 10/31/2003
Series: Development of Western Resources Series
Pages: 368
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction, Virginia J. Scharff

Part I. Representation

1. Man and Nature! Sex Secrets of Environmental History, Virginia J. Scharff

2. Naturalizing Power: Land and Sexual Violence along William Byrd’s Dividing Line, Paige Raibmon

3. Thinking Like Mount Rushmore: Sexuality and Gender in the Republican Landscape, Peter Boag

Part II. Bodies

4. Scaling New Heights: Heroic Firemen, Gender, and the Urban Environment, 1875-1900, Mark Tebeau

5. “New Men in Body and Soul”: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Transformation of Male Bodies and the Body Politic, Bryant Simon

6. Voices from the Spring: Silent Spring and the Ecological Turn in American Health, Maril Hazlett

7. Gender Transformed: Endocrine Disruptors in the Environment, Nancy Langston

Part III. Consumption

8. Putting Gender on the Table: Food and Family Life of Nature, Douglas C. Sackman

9. From Snow Bunnies to Shred Betties: Gender, Consumption, and the Skiing Landscape, Annie GIlbert Coleman

Part IV. Politics

10. “She Touched Fifty Million Lives”: Gene Stratton-Porter and Nature Conservation, Amy Green

11. Nature’s Lovers: The Erotics of Lesbian Land Communities in Oregon, 1974-1984, Catherine Kleiner

12. Saving Centennial Valley: Land Gender, and Community in the Northern Black Hills, Katherine Jensen

13. Steps to an Ecology of Justice: Women’s Environmental Networks Across the Santa Cruz River Watershed, Giovanna Di Chiro

Contributors

Index

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