Made From This Earth: American Women and NatureThe 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 deemed appropriate for women in the early 1800s. After highlighting the work of nineteenth-century scientific illustrators and garden designers, she focuses on nature's advocates such as Rachel Carson and Dian Fossey who differed strongly with men on both women's "nature" and the value of the natural world. These women challenged the dominant, male-controlled ideologies, often framing their critique with reference to values arising from the female experience. Norwood concludes with an analysis of the utopian solutions posed by ecofeminists, the most recent group of women to contest men over the meaning and value of nature. |
Contents
| 1 | |
Susan Fenimore Cooper and the Seasonal Tradition | 25 |
Womens Drawings of Natures Artifacts | 54 |
Gardeners and Their Gardens | 98 |
Rachel Carson and Her Colleagues | 143 |
Nature in EuroAmerican African American and American Indian Fiction | 172 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
African American Agnes Chase American Indian American women animal rights argues artists Beatrix Farrand beautiful behavior birds botanical botany Carson Collection Celia Thaxter connection conservation contemporary Crisler critique culture Deep Ecology Dian Fossey domestic dominant early earth Ecofeminism ecofeminists ecology elephants environmental Euro-American Farrand female feminism feminist FIGURE flora flowers Fossey garden clubs gender gorillas groups human hunting husband illustrations interest Jane Colden Johnson Lady Lady Bird Johnson land landscape lives male Mary middle-class mother mountain gorillas movement Museum narrative natural history naturalists nature study nature writers nineteenth nineteenth-century Phelps photographic plants and animals popular preservation Primate Rachel Carson role Rural Hours scientific scientists sexual shells Silent Spring social society species stereotypes story suburban suggests Susan Cooper Susan Fenimore Cooper tion tradition trophy twentieth century University Press urban values wild animals wilderness woman women of color writing York