Nancy C. Unger is Associate Professor of History at Santa Clara University. She is the author of the prize-winning biography Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer, and book review editor of The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

• Acknowledgments ; Introduction: Sex, Sexuality, and Gender as Useful Category of Analysis in Environmental History ; 1. Gendered Changes to the Land in Pre-Columbian and Colonial America ; 2. The North and the South from Revolution to Civil War ; 3. The Frontier Environment as Test of Prescribed Gender Spheres ; 4. "Nature's Housekeepers": Progressive-Era Women as Midwives to the Conservation Movement and Environmental Consciousness ; 5. Reasserting Female Authority: Women and the Environment from the 1920s through World War II ; 6. Middle Class White Women in the Cold War ; 7. Women's Alternative Environments: Fostering Gender Identity by Striving to Remake the World ; 8. The Modern Environmental Justice Movement ; Epilogue: Women, Gender, and the Environment in the 21st Century ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index

Nancy Unger's Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History chronicles women's interactions with nonhuman nature throughout American history. It is an ambitious and important work that combines American environmental and women's and gender history into an accessible synthesis that would be useful not only in women's and environmental history survey courses, but also in both halves of the US history survey. Unger's book would also appeal to readers with a general interest in American women's or environmental history.... Unger weaves together a highly engaging narrative of women's and environmental history that incorporates a multitude of fresh voices into the master narrative of American history.

Nancy C. Unger is Associate Professor of History at Santa Clara University. She is the author of the prize-winning biography Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer, and book review editor of The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

• Acknowledgments ; Introduction: Sex, Sexuality, and Gender as Useful Category of Analysis in Environmental History ; 1. Gendered Changes to the Land in Pre-Columbian and Colonial America ; 2. The North and the South from Revolution to Civil War ; 3. The Frontier Environment as Test of Prescribed Gender Spheres ; 4. "Nature's Housekeepers": Progressive-Era Women as Midwives to the Conservation Movement and Environmental Consciousness ; 5. Reasserting Female Authority: Women and the Environment from the 1920s through World War II ; 6. Middle Class White Women in the Cold War ; 7. Women's Alternative Environments: Fostering Gender Identity by Striving to Remake the World ; 8. The Modern Environmental Justice Movement ; Epilogue: Women, Gender, and the Environment in the 21st Century ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index

Nancy Unger's Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History chronicles women's interactions with nonhuman nature throughout American history. It is an ambitious and important work that combines American environmental and women's and gender history into an accessible synthesis that would be useful not only in women's and environmental history survey courses, but also in both halves of the US history survey. Unger's book would also appeal to readers with a general interest in American women's or environmental history.... Unger weaves together a highly engaging narrative of women's and environmental history that incorporates a multitude of fresh voices into the master narrative of American history.

Nancy C. Unger is Associate Professor of History at Santa Clara University. She is the author of the prize-winning biography Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer, and book review editor of The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

• Acknowledgments ; Introduction: Sex, Sexuality, and Gender as Useful Category of Analysis in Environmental History ; 1. Gendered Changes to the Land in Pre-Columbian and Colonial America ; 2. The North and the South from Revolution to Civil War ; 3. The Frontier Environment as Test of Prescribed Gender Spheres ; 4. "Nature's Housekeepers": Progressive-Era Women as Midwives to the Conservation Movement and Environmental Consciousness ; 5. Reasserting Female Authority: Women and the Environment from the 1920s through World War II ; 6. Middle Class White Women in the Cold War ; 7. Women's Alternative Environments: Fostering Gender Identity by Striving to Remake the World ; 8. The Modern Environmental Justice Movement ; Epilogue: Women, Gender, and the Environment in the 21st Century ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index

Nancy Unger's Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History chronicles women's interactions with nonhuman nature throughout American history. It is an ambitious and important work that combines American environmental and women's and gender history into an accessible synthesis that would be useful not only in women's and environmental history survey courses, but also in both halves of the US history survey. Unger's book would also appeal to readers with a general interest in American women's or environmental history.... Unger weaves together a highly engaging narrative of women's and environmental history that incorporates a multitude of fresh voices into the master narrative of American history.