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From pre-Columbian times to the environmental justice movements of the present, women and men frequently responded to the environment and environmental issues in profoundly different ways. Although both environmental history and women's history are flourishing fields, explorations of the synergy produced by the interplay between environment and sex, sexuality, and gender are just beginning. Offering more than biographies of great women in environmental history, Beyond Nature's Housekeepers examines the intersections that shaped women's unique environmental concerns and activism and that framed the way the larger culture responded. Women featured include Native Americans, colonists, enslaved field workers, pioneers, homemakers, municipal housekeepers, immigrants, hunters, nature writers, soil conservationists, scientists, migrant laborers, nuclear protestors, and environmental justice activists. As women, they fared, thought, and acted in ways complicated by social, political,
and economic norms, as well as issues of sexuality and childbearing. Nancy C. Unger reveals how women have played a unique role, for better and sometimes for worse, in the shaping of the American environment.

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"Provides a useful survey of the ways that environmental history and women's history can come together. Between the early discussions of women's labour and land use, to discussions of how constructions of gender have been informed by the association between femininity and nature, to women's role in environmental movements, Unger provides a number of different directions for readers to follow up."--Women's History

"Nancy Unger's Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History chronicles women's interactions with nonhuman nature throughout American history. It is an ambitious and important work that combines American environmental and women's and gender history into an accessible synthesis that would be useful not only in women's and environmental history survey courses, but also in both halves of the US history survey. Unger's book would also appeal to readers with a general interest in American women's or environmental history....Unger weaves together a highly engaging narrative of women's and environmental history that incorporates a multitude of fresh voices into the master narrative of American history."--Peggy Macdonald, Environmental History

"In Beyond Nature's Housekeepers, Nancy Unger brings together a breadth of scholarship that touches on American women's experience and impact on the environment in a short, well-written book. The relatively brief chapters with vivid anecdotes are perfect for an undergraduate audience."--Pacific Historical Review

"With this book, Unger has undertaken a formidable task that could have failed in the hands of a less-accomplished historian. She persuasively demonstrates that there is a distinct women-centered understanding of environmentalism and the people's relationship to the environment that transcends time and place and that this perspective must be incorporated into any analysis of environmental history."--American Historical Review

"Unger's narrative is a go-to reference for anyone interested in the socially constructed and physical ways both sex and gender intersect with nature in the United States. It is an important work that will be a reference in the field for quite some time."--Environment and History

"In this rich, learned, and lively synthesis, Nancy C. Unger reveals the astoundingly varied, crucial roles women have played throughout American environmental history. Where we have heretofore seen glimpses and snippets of this immense and still evolving story, Unger gives us a sweeping narrative to savor and ponder. A marvelous achievement!"--Virginia Scharff, University of New Mexico and Autry National Center

"In the United States sex, sexuality, and gender have mattered in the way that women's concerns and activism in regard to environmental issues have been framed and received by the larger culture. Beyond Nature's Housekeepers provides a comprehensive overview of the subject."--Vera Norwood, author of Made From This Earth: American Women and Nature

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Nancy C. Unger is Professor of History at Santa Clara University. She is the author of the prize-winning biography Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer, and book review editor of The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press; Illustrated edition (October 5, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0199735077
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0199735075
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.21 x 0.7 x 6.14 inches

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Nancy C. Unger is an award-winning author and teacher who believes that the study of history is not only fun, but vital to understanding the present--and can be a powerful tool in solving today's problems. She is Professor of History at Santa Clara University. The New York Times said of her first book,the award-winning Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer, "La Follette leaps from its pages." Her op-eds, syndicated by the History News Service, have appeared in newspapers across the country, including the Chicago Sun-Times, Maimi Herald, San Francisco Chronicle, and Kansas City Star. Her radio appearances include National Public Radio, Talking History, and AIR AMERICA and she has consulted with Bill Moyers for PBS. She is particularly proud of the cover image of her book "Beyond Nature's Housekeepers": it's her mother-in-law at age 16, at ranch camp in Arizona in 1946! In researching her latest book (Belle La Follette: Progressive Era Reformer), she was surprised to find that La Follette was far more radical than her self-effacing demeanor suggested. Called "disgraceful to the white race," La Follette was fearless in her pursuit of equality, peace, and votes for women.

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Although her title suggests that Unger will continue to grapple with the legacy of women-as-domesticators-of-the-land posited by scholars Annette Kolodny and Vera Norwood, Unger here disappoints. Her thesis is merely that gender, sex, and sexuality "influenced the way nonhuman nature was viewed, used, abused, protected, or preserved. Men and women frequently understood and responded to their environment and environmental issues in decidedly different ways.” In covering all three of these factors: sex, sexuality, and gender, Unger refrains from higher-level analysis exploring how the three are linked, or not, and further fails to grapple with the ever-shifting cultural definitions of the implicit triad of nature / wilderness / the environment that quietly pervades her work. Her two-page explanation of eco-feminism simplifies an umbrella term for a wide variety of sometimes-contradictory opinions into a monolithic and coherent ideology. Alternately reading as primarily an environmental history and primarily a women’s history of the United States, each chapter reads as a distinct essay more than a building block in an argument.
However, all these factors contribute to the success of Unger’s ultimate and unspoken task: she has written a primer text to introduce the lay public and young scholars alike to the study of women and their environment. Moving from the indigenous inhabitants of this land to the contemporary environmental justice movement, Unger examines both the role of women generally in America, and exceptional women individually. Although she helpfully forbears on grappling with the complex theoretical formulations of Stacey Alaimo, for instance (whose work she is undoubtedly familiar with, citing her as well as co-contributing to a conference publication with her ), Unger touches on the contributions of a wide variety of scholars, and her footnotes are helpful guides to further reading. In short, it is not a strictly original work, nor meant to be, but a synthetic overview of the major ways women have interacted with their environment, and all the major topics covered by this field thus far, as well many minor topics. Indeed, she covers much more than the municipal-housekeeping and domestic interpretations of women, to descriptions of female field slaves’ eco-sabotage and the pastoral lesbian retreat of Cherry Island in the 1950s. As such, it marks an important turning point in the establishing of this domain of research; no longer populated by books written primarily for other scholars, with books like Unger’s, the historical study of women and their environment is now reaching out to the public, and to undergraduate curriculums.

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"Smart Cookies" always prevail

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Beyond Nature's Housekeepers is an excellent foundational resource underpinning the role women in the environmental movement from America's beginning to the present. Well written, documented, and researched, with particular attention paid to the sequence of unheralded voices in the advancement of our country's environmental progress. In reading, one learns the impact of women as the consciousness of society, and how admirably they employed their societal roles to America's advantage in every generation. Lots of "smart cookies" involved who admirably used their social and political sway for the benefit of mankind, and Unger brings them to life. Good reading and even better information.

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A highly engaging blend of American women's and environmental history

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Nancy Unger’s Beyond Nature’s Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History chronicles women’s interactions with nonhuman nature throughout American history. It is an ambitious and important work that combines American environmental and women’s and gender history into an accessible synthesis. Unger weaves together a highly engaging narrative of women’s and environmental history that incorporates a multitude of fresh voices into the master narrative of American history.

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Thorough Coverage of the Topic

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Unger casts a wide net in the U.S. and elsewhere. I do not always agree, but her book is a starting point.

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Mary Whisner

Well-told Episodes of Women's Roles in US Environmental History

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 2, 2012

I'll say up front that the author and I are good friends, so I'm not a neutral reviewer. But I was able to read the book in draft and so can offer comments earlier than readers who are just now starting the book.

This book is both a serious scholarly work and completely accessible to readers who had very little exposure to either women's history or environmental history. Despite the broad scope (all of U.S. history, from pre-Columbian Indians and early European settlement to the present), the narrative is enlivened by vivid details. For example, instead of blandly saying that women were involved in protesting nuclear plants in the 1970s, Unger gives details about the activist tactics of a group of Wisconsin women and teases out how their gender affected their activism. Each chapter tells such stories of women, some famous (Rachel Carson) and some not well known (for instance, two Chicanas who worked to oppose industrial developments near their homes in East Austin, TX). Some of the photos she found to illustrate the text are stunning.

Unger's work is nuanced, looking at all sorts of tensions and complexities. For instance, she is well aware that the ideals of refined domesticity that "protected" white women from the world outside the home did not protect enslaved African American women forced to work in the fields. Women are not always environmental heroes. Indeed, women drove the demand for luxuriant feathers to ornament their hats that nearly destroyed large populations of egrets and other birds. And women were enthusiastic consumers of the plethora of chemical cleaning products that entered the market after World War II.

Some of the topics covered will be new to readers. Others might be familiar, but not with the analysis of sex, sexuality, and gender that Unger provides. For example, we know that Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring was instrumental in the movement that led to the banning of DDT (and the saving of countless animals, including, no doubt, humans), but I didn't know the extent of the criticisms that were based on her being a woman (and an unmarried woman at that).

This book is appropriate for readers of US history generally as well as those specifically interested in environmental history, women's history, or activism.

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