This Elusive Land : Women and the Canadian Environment.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Women and Environment -- Part 1 Explorers and Settlers -- 1 Little Goody Two-Shoes: Reassessing the Work of Catharine Parr Traill -- 2 Environmentalism, Hermeneutics, and Canadian Imperialism in Agnes Deans Cameron's The New North -- 3 Wilderness Wives: Domestic Economy and Women's Participation in Nature -- 4 And the Young Man Did Go North ( Unfortunately): Reflections on Issues in Gender and the Academy -- Part 2 Making a Living: Making a Life -- 5 Environmental, Industrial, and Political Restructuring and the Health of Women Processing Workers in Newfoundland's Fishery- Dependent Communities -- 6 Working at the Margins of Forestry: The Gender of Labour Practices on British Columbia's West Coast -- 7 People for Pigs in Pleasant-Land: Small- Scale Women Farmers -- 8 Where the Mountain Men Meet the Lesbian Rangers: Gender, Nation, and Nature in the Rocky Mountain National Parks -- Part 3 Environmental Politics: Issues at Home and Away -- 9 The Public, the Private, the Planet, and the Province: Women's Quality- of- Life Activism in Urban Southern Ontario -- 10 Desperately Seeking Sisterhood and Sustainability: Creating Transnational Social Learning Spaces for Sustainable Agriculture and Environmental Advocacy -- 11 Too Close to Home: Dioxin Contamination of Breast Milk and the Political Agenda -- 12 Acting Locally: Mapping and Countermapping toward a Grassroots Feminist Cartography -- Part 4 Rethinking the Environment -- 13 Tracing Amorous Journeys from the Sweetwater to Watson Lake: Environmental Ecstasies of Willa Cather and Aritha van Herk -- 14 The Fall of the Wild? Feminist Perspectives of Canadian Wilderness Protection -- 15 A Vision of Transformation: Ecofeminist Spiritualities in Canada -- 16 The Listening World: First Nations Women Writers and the Environment -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Contributors.

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This multidisciplinary anthology discusses the ways in which women integrate the social and biophysical settings of their lives, featuring a range of contexts and issues in which gender mediates, inspires, and informs a sense of belonging to and in this land.

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