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1 online resource (xx, 386 pages) |
| Contents |
Contents -- Introduction: Women and Environment -- Part 1 Explorers and Settlers -- 1 Little Goody Two-Shoes: Reassessing the Work of Catharine Parr Traill -- 2 Environmentalism, Hermeneutics, and Canadian Imperialism in Agnes Deans Cameron�s The New North -- 3 Wilderness Wives: Domestic Economy and Women�s Participation in Nature -- 4 And the Young Man Did Go North (Unfortunately): Reflections on Issues in Gender and the Academy -- Part 2 Making a Living: Making a Life |
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5 Environmental, Industrial, and Political Restructuring and the Health of Women Processing Workers in Newfoundland�s Fishery- Dependent Communities6 Working at the Margins of Forestry: The Gender of Labour Practices on British Columbia�s West Coast -- 7 People for Pigs in Pleasant-Land: Small- Scale Women Farmers -- 8 Where the Mountain Men Meet the Lesbian Rangers: Gender, Nation, and Nature in the Rocky Mountain National Parks -- Part 3 Environmental Politics: Issues at Home and Away |
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9 The Public, the Private, the Planet, and the Province: Women�s Quality- of- Life Activism in Urban Southern Ontario10 Desperately Seeking Sisterhood and Sustainability: Creating Transnational Social Learning Spaces for Sustainable Agriculture and Environmental Advocacy -- 11 Too Close to Home: Dioxin Contamination of Breast Milk and the Political Agenda -- 12 Acting Locally: Mapping and Countermapping toward a Grassroots Feminist Cartography -- Part 4 Rethinking the Environment |
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13 Tracing Amorous Journeys from the Sweetwater to Watson Lake: Environmental Ecstasies of Willa Cather and Aritha van Herk14 The Fall of the Wild? Feminist Perspectives of Canadian Wilderness Protection -- 15 A Vision of Transformation: Ecofeminist Spiritualities in Canada -- 16 The Listening World: First Nations Women Writers and the Environment -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
Annotation. "This Elusive Land provides an introduction to the literature about women and the environment in Canada. It looks at the ways in which women integrate the social and biophysical settings of their lives, and features a range of contexts in which gender mediates, inspires, and informs a sense of belonging to and in this land. Drawing from geographical, historical, and cultural perspectives, the volume reveals the significance of women's experiences in various landscapes."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
| Bibliography |
Includes "Bibliography" (p. [341]-364) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Women and the environment -- Canada
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Environmentalism -- Canada
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
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Environmentalism
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Women and the environment
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Canada
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hessing, Melody.
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Raglon, Rebecca.
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Sandilands, Catriona
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| ISBN |
9780774851190 |
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0774851198 |
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