Women and Wilderness

Name: Women and Wilderness
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ISBN: 9780871568281

ISBN-10: 0871568284

ISBN-13: 9780871568281

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Anne LaBastille

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Wildlife ecologist Anne LaBastille is a pioneer in the growing movement of women into wilderness-oriented careers. In this groundbreaking book, she documents this phenomenon, profiling fifteen remarkable women ranging in age from twenty-one to seventy whose lives and professions center on the outdoors. Some are field scientists or hold technical jobs--a zoologist, a speleologist (cave explorer), a builder of log houses--others have forged unique, self-reliant lifestyles in wilderness homesteads. These women, LaBastille herself among them, constitute a new and important category of role models for young women. LaBastille also looks at the complex web of social and psychosexual factors that…

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List price: $19.95
Publisher: Sierra Club Books
Publication date: 8/12/1984
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Finding the Way



The Background



Frontier Women-Case Studies



Frontier Women in Fiction



Changing Times



The Making of Professionals



The Wilderness Women



Elaine Rhode: Freelancer in the Aleutians



Jeanne Gurnee: Explorer Underground



Krissa Johnson: Architect with a Chainsaw



Margaret Owings: An Artist in Activism



Diana Cohen: A School without Walls



Eugenie Clark: Scientist in a Wetsuit



Peggy Eckel Duke: Monitoring the Olympics



Sheila Link: A Modern Diana



Carol Ruckdeschel: Island Naturalist



Margaret Stewart: The Frog Professor



Rebecca Lawton: Crusader for Whitewater



Margaret Murie: A Long Life in the Wilderness



Maggie Nichols: Outdoor Journalism in the Urban Jungle



Nicole Duplaix: The Peripatetic Zoologist



Joan Daniels: Homesteading on the Alaskan Frontier



Women and Wilderness


Afterword to the New Edition


Bibliography


Index