Women and Nature: Saving the Wild West

by Glenda Riley

Book Overview

Long before Rachel Carson's fight against pesticides placed female environmental activists in the national spotlight, women were involved in American environmentalism. In Women and Nature: Saving the "Wild" West, Glenda Riley calls for a reappraisal of the roots of the American conservation movement. This thoroughly researched study of women conservationists provides a needed corrective to the male-dominated historiography of environmental...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803239327
• ISBN13: 9780803239326
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.9"