Beyond nature's housekeepers: American women in environmental history

Introduction: Sex, Sexuality, and Gender as Useful Category of Analysis in Environmental History

Gendered Changes to the Land in Pre-Columbian and Colonial America

The North and the South from Revolution to Civil War

The Frontier Environment as Test of Prescribed Gender Spheres

"Nature's Housekeepers" : Progressive-Era Women as Midwives to the Conservation Movement and Environmental Consciousness

Reasserting Female Authority : Women and the Environment from the 1920s through World War II

Middle Class White Women in the Cold War

Women's Alternative Environments : Fostering Gender Identity by Striving to Remake the World

The Modern Environmental Justice Movement

Epilogue: Women, Gender, and the Environment in the 21st Century.