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
Summary
This book highlights the unique and complex role women have played in the shaping of the American environment from pre-Columbian Native Americans to present day environmental justice activists
