Bibliographies

Gender and Environmental History

Date:    Tue, 30 Jan 2001

Dear aseh list serve members,

Thank you all for your suggestions regarding readings in gender and
environmental history.  I've attached the list that my graduate student put
together from all of your recommendations.  Hope to see many of you in
Durham.

Neil Maher

Breton, Mary Joy. Women Pioneers for the Environment.  Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998.

Cheney, Jim. "Eco-Feminism and Deep Ecology." Environmental Ethics
vol. 9 (1987): 115-45.

Diamond, Irene and Gloria Orenstein (eds.).  Reweaving the World: The Emergence of Ecofeminism. Sierra Club Books: 1990.

Gottlieb, Robert.  Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement. Island Press: 1995.  (Includes discussion of Alice Hamilton and the modern environmental movement.)

Gugliotta, Angela. "Class, Gender, and Coal Smoke: Gender Ideology and Environmental Injustice in Pittsburgh, 1868-1914." Environmental History vol. 5 (Apr 2000) no. 2 : 165-193.

Haraway, Donna. Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science. Routledge: New York, 1989.

Herron, John P. and Andrew G. Kirk (eds). Human/Nature: Biology, Culture, and Environmental History. University of New Mexico Press: Albuquerque, 1999.  (Includes articles by Vera Norwood, Carolyn Merchant, and Virginia Scharff.  See Scharff's citations below.)

Johnson, Susan L. Roaring Camps: The Social Work of the California Gold Rush. W.W. Norton & Company: 2001.

Kolodny, Annette. The Land Before Her: Fantasy and Experience of the American Frontiers, 1630-1860.  University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill, 1984.

Kolodny, Annette. The Lay of the Land: Metaphor as Experience and History in American Life and Letters. University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill, 1975.

Lear, Linda. Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature. Henry Holt and Company: New York, 1997.

MacKinnon, Mary H. and Moni McIntyre (eds.). Readings in Ecology and Feminist Theology. Kansas City: Sheed and Ward, 1995.

McCurry, Stephanie. Masters of Small Worlds: Yeomen Households, Gender Relations and the Political Culture of Antebellum South Carolina Low Country. Oxford University Press: 1995.

Merchant, Carolyn. Earthcare: Women and the Environment. Routledge: New York, 1995.

Merchant, Carolyn. "Gender and Environmental History." Journal of American History 76 (March 1990): 1117-1121.

Norwood, Vera. Made From This Earth: American Women and Nature. University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill & London, 1993.

Pena, Devon G. The Terror of the Machine: Technology, Work, Gender, and Ecology on the U.S.-Mexico Border.  Center for Mexican Studies: Austin, 1997.

Platt, Harold L. "Jane Addams and the Ward Boss Revisited: Class, Politics, and Public Health in Chicago, 1890-1930." Environmental History vol. 5 (Apr 2000) no 2: 194-222.

Plumwood, Val. Feminism and the Mastery of Nature. Routledge: New York, 1994.

Price, Jennifer. Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America. Basic Books: 1999.

Riley, Glenda. Women and Nature: Saving the "Wild" West. University of Nebraska Press: Lincoln, 1999.

Ruether, Rosemary R. Gaia & God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing. HarperCollins Publishers: San Francisco, 1992.

Scharff, Virginia. "Are Earth Girls Easy?: Ecofeminism, Women's History, and Environmental History." Journal of Women's History 7 (Summer 1995): 164-75.

Scharff, V.  "Man and Nature! Sex Secrets of Environmental History." in Human Nature: Biology, Culture, and Environmental History.  John P. Herron and Andrew G. Kirk (eds.). University of New Mexico Press: Albuquerque, 1999: 31-48.

Schrepfer, Susan R. The Fight to Save the Redwoods: A History of Environmental Reform, 1917-1978. University of Wisconsin Press: Madison,
1983.

Shiva, Vandana and Maria Mies. Ecofeminism. Zed Books: Atlantic Highlands & London, 1993.

Sturgeon, Noel. Ecofeminist Natures: Race, Gender, Feminist Theory, and Political Action. Routledge: New York & London, 1997.

Warren, Karen and Nisvan Erkal (eds.). Ecofeminism: Women, Culture, Nature. Indiana University Press: Bloomington, 1997.

Zimmerman, Michael E. "Feminism, Deep Ecology, and EnvironmentalvEthics." Environmental Ethics 9 (1987): 21-44.