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Nature's altars : mountains, gender, and American environmentalism /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schrepfer, Susan R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [2005]
Subjects:
Nature conservation > United States > History.
Environmentalism > United States > History.
Mountains > United States > Psychological aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • Introduction
  • (En)gendering the wilderness, 1860s-1914
  • Place naming in the High Sierra
  • Masculine sublimes
  • Feminine sublimes
  • Outdoor experiences and the politics of conservation, 1914-1944
  • Mountains as home and garden
  • Mountains as the measure of men
  • In fire, blossoms, and blood
  • In wildness is the preservation of the nation, and the world, 1945-1964
  • Mountain conquest family style
  • Mountains made wilderness.