This elusive land : women and the Canadian environment /
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| Imprint: | Vancouver : UBC Press, 2005. |
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| Description: | xx, 386 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Sustainability and the environment |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5577532 |
Table of Contents:
- 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 Cameron's The new north / Daniel O'Leary
- 3. Wilderness wives : domestic economy and women's 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 Newfoundland's fishery-dependent communities / Barbara Neis and Brenda Grzetic
- 6. Working at the margins of forestry : the gender of labour practices on British Columbia's 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 : women's 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.
