Made From This Earth: American Women and Nature

by Vera Norwood

Book Overview

The broad sweep of environmental and ecological history has until now been written and understood in predominantly male terms. In Made 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807843962
• ISBN13: 9780807843963
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.2"