This elusive land : women and the Canadian environment
"This Elusive Land provides an introduction to the literature about women and the environment in Canada. It looks at the ways in which women integrate the social and biophysical settings of their lives, and features a range of contexts in which gender mediates, inspires, and informs a sense of belonging to and in this land. Drawing from geographical, historical, and cultural perspectives, the volume reveals the significance of women's experiences in various landscapes."--BOOK JACKET
xx, 386 p.
9780774811064, 9780774811071, 0774811064, 0774811072
1016179843
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