Made from This Earth American Women and Nature

Name: Made from This Earth American Women and Nature
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ISBN: 9780807843963

ISBN-10: 0807843962

ISBN-13: 9780807843963

Edition: 1993

Authors: Vera Norwood

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The broad sweep of environmental and ecological history has until now been written and understood in predominantly male terms. InMade From This Earth, Vera Norwood explores the relationship of women to the natural environment through the work of writers, illustrators, landscape and garden designers, ornithologists, botanists, biologists, and conservationists. Norwood begins by showing that the study and promotion of botany was an activity deemed appropriate for women in the early 1800s. After highlighting the work of nineteenth-century scientific illustrators and garden designers, she focuses on nature's advocates such as Rachel Carson and Dian Fossey who differed strongly with men on both…

Book details

List price: $47.50
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 3/5/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 0.308
Language: English

Vera Norwood, professor of American studies at the University of New Mexico, is coeditor of The Desert Is No Lady: Southwestern Landscapes in Women's Writing and Art.



Gender & American Culture


Preface



Sources for American Women's Nature Study



Pleasures of the Country Life



The Illustrators Women's Drawings of Nature's Artifacts



Designing Nature Gardeners and Their Gardens



Nature's Advocates



Writing Animal Presence Nature in Euro-American, African American, and American Indian Fiction



Women and Wildlife



She Unnames Them


Notes


Bibliography


Index