This elusive land : women and the Canadian environment
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- ISBN: 0774811072
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xx, 386 p. ; 23 cm. - Publisher: Vancouver, BC : UBC Press, c2005.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-364) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction : women and environment -- 1. Little goody two-shoes : reassessing the work of Catharine Parr Traill / Rebecca Raglon -- 2. Environmentalism, hermeneutics, and Canadian imperialism in Agnes Deans Cameronαs The new north / Daniel OαLeary -- 3. Wilderness wives : domestic economy and womenαs participation in nature / Randall Roorda -- 4. And the young man did go north (unfortunately) : reflections on issues in gender and the academy / Jo-Anne Fiske -- 5. Environmental, industrial, and political restructuring and the health of women processing workers in Newfoundlandαs fishery-dependent communities / Barbara Neis and Brenda Grzetic -- 6. Working at the margins of forestry : the gender of labour practices on British Columbiaαs west coast / Maureen G. Reed -- 7. People for pigs in Pleasant-Land : small-scale women farmers / Martha McMahon -- 8. Where the mountain men meet the lesbian rangers : gender, nation, and nature in the Rocky Mountain national parks / Catriona Sandilands -- 9. The public, the private, the planet, and the province : womenαs quality-of-life activism in urban southern Ontario / Sherilyn MacGregor -- 10. Desperately seeking sisterhood and sustainability : creating transnational social learning spaces for sustainable agriculture and environmental advocacy / Leonora C. Angeles, Layla Saad and Rebecca Tarbotton -- 11. Too close to home : dioxin contamination of breast milk and the political agenda / Kathryn Harrison -- 12. Acting locally : mapping and countermapping toward a grassroots feminist cartography / Katherine Dunster -- 13. Tracing amorous journeys from the Sweetwater to Watson Lake : environmental ecstasies of Willa Cather and Aritha van Herk / Anne L. Kaufman -- 14. The fall of the wild? : feminist perspectives of Canadian wilderness protection / Melody Hessing -- 15. A vision of transformation : ecofeminist spiritualities in Canada / Heather Eaton -- 16. The listening world : First Nations women writers and the environment / Marian Scholtmeijer. |
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Subject: | Women and the environment -- Canada Feminism -- Canada Environmentalism -- Canada Canada -- Environmental conditions |
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