Seeing Nature through Gender (Development of Western Resources)

Scharff, Virginia J. [Editor]

ISBN 10: 0700612858 / ISBN 13: 9780700612857

Published by University Press of Kansas, 2003

Seller Inventory # 0700612858-4-32480105

Synopsis:

Environmental history has traditionally told the story of Man and Nature. This book 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.

Review: "A much needed and welcome addition to the field. . . . Scharff opens the volume with a powerful argument for the relevance of gender to studies of the environment, arguing that the connections are both cultural and material and ultimately unavoidable. . . . This volume indicates that conversations between environmental and gender history are likely to produce some ground-breaking work."Oregon Historical Quarterly

"This anthology succeeds in demonstrating its underlying premise that humans know nature through gender."Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment

"An assortment of readable and provocative essays."American Historical Review

"These essays are readable, teachable, intelligent, creative, funny, and, at times, disturbing in what they foretell for the future of nature inside and outside the human body. Together they form an indispensable work of environmental history."Western Historical Quarterly

"Provides an eclectic and enlightening perspective on a neglected aspect of environmental history. Although the essays range broadly, from the evolution of the heroic male firefighter image to the environmental ethics of lesbian land communities, they all explore the dynamic interface between gender constructs and the natural world. [This book] clearly demonstrates how integral gender has been in physical, mental, and spiritual interactions with nature through time. It has much to say to western historians."Montana The Magazine of Western History

This volume brings together some of the most innovative and exciting work in two burgeoning fields of historygender history and environmental history. It promises to break ground and will, as a result, be widely read and cited.Nancy Hewitt, editor of Talking Gender

Until recently environmental history has been curiously immune to gendered analysis. This gathering of original essays should enhance that enterprise and in the process open up entirely new possibilities for the field.Elliott West, author of The Contested Plains

Signals a coming of age for both gender studies and environmental studies and the arrival of a mature scholarship that can bring these interdisciplinary gestures together. . . . Will be a touchstone for future work in these areas.Frieda E. Knobloch, author of The Culture of Wilderness

Bibliographic Details

Title: Seeing Nature through Gender (Development of...
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: paperback
Condition: Fair