New perspectives on environmental justice gender, sexuality, and activism

Publication/Creation:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2004]

Resource Type:

Book

More Details

Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

New perspectives on environmental justice gender, sexuality, and activism / Rachel Stein

Related/Included Titles:

Frontmatter --
CONTENTS --
Acknowledgments --
Foreword --
Introduction --
1 Toward a Queer Ecofeminism --
2 Women, Sexuality, and Environmental Justice in American History --
3 Feminist Theory and Environmental Justice --
4 Witness to Truth: Black Women Heeding the Call for Environmental Justice --
5 The Role of Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Class in Activists’ Perceptions of Environmental Justice --
6 Sexual Politics and Environmental Justice: Lesbian Separatists in Rural Oregon --
7 Toxic Bodies? ACT UP’s Disruption of the Heteronormative Landscape of the Nation --
8 Producing “Roundup Ready®” Communities? Human Genome Research and Environmental Justice Policy --
9 Public Eyes: Investigating the Causes of Breast Cancer --
10 Gender, Asthma Politics, and Urban Environmental Justice Activism --
11 No Remedy for the Inuit: Accountability for Environmental Harms under U.S. and International Law --
12 Bodily Invasions: Gene Trading and Organ Theft in Octavia Butler and Nalo Hopkinson’s Speculative Fiction --
13 Home Everywhere and the Injured Body of the World: The Subversive Humor of Blue Vinyl --
14 “Lo que quiero es tierra”: Longing and Belonging in Cherríe Moraga’s Ecological Vision --
15 Detecting Toxic Environments: Gay Mystery as Environmental Justice --
16 “The Power is Yours, Planeteers!” Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Children’s Environmental Popular Culture --
Notes on Contributors --
Index

Related Names

Additional Author/Creators:

Berila, Beth
Chiro, Giovanna Di
Gaard, Greta
Hogan, Katie
Kaalund, Valerie
LaDuke, Winona
Lucas, Anne
Newman, Marcy Knopf
Plevin, Arlene
Prindeville, Diane-Michele
Stein, Rachel, editor
Sturgeon, Noel
Sze, Julie
Unger, Nancy
Verchick, Robert
Yates, Gayle Graham

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Women--Political activity
Women environmentalists
Environmental justice

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 Toward a Queer Ecofeminism -- 2 Women, Sexuality, and Environmental Justice in American History -- 3 Feminist Theory and Environmental Justice -- 4 Witness to Truth: Black Women Heeding the Call for Environmental Justice -- 5 The Role of Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Class in Activists’ Perceptions of Environmental Justice -- 6 Sexual Politics and Environmental Justice: Lesbian Separatists in Rural Oregon -- 7 Toxic Bodies? ACT UP’s Disruption of the Heteronormative Landscape of the Nation -- 8 Producing “Roundup Ready®” Communities? Human Genome Research and Environmental Justice Policy -- 9 Public Eyes: Investigating the Causes of Breast Cancer -- 10 Gender, Asthma Politics, and Urban Environmental Justice Activism -- 11 No Remedy for the Inuit: Accountability for Environmental Harms under U.S. and International Law -- 12 Bodily Invasions: Gene Trading and Organ Theft in Octavia Butler and Nalo Hopkinson’s Speculative Fiction -- 13 Home Everywhere and the Injured Body of the World: The Subversive Humor of Blue Vinyl -- 14 “Lo que quiero es tierra”: Longing and Belonging in Cherríe Moraga’s Ecological Vision -- 15 Detecting Toxic Environments: Gay Mystery as Environmental Justice -- 16 “The Power is Yours, Planeteers!” Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Children’s Environmental Popular Culture -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

Summary:

Women make up the vast majority of activists and organizers of grassroots movements fighting against environmental ills that threaten poor and people of color communities. New Perspectives on Environmental Justice is the first collection of essays that pays tribute to the enormous contributions women have made in these endeavors. The writers offer varied examples of environmental justice issues such as children's environmental health campaigns, cancer research, AIDS/HIV activism, the Environmental Genome Project, and popular culture, among many others. Each one focuses on gender and sexuality as crucial factors in women's or gay men's activism and applies environmental justice principles to related struggles for sexual justice. The contributors represent a wide variety of activist and scholarly perspectives including law, environmental studies, sociology, political science, history, medical anthropology, American studies, English, African and African American studies, women's studies, and gay and lesbian studies, offering multiple vantage points on gender, sexuality, and activism. Feminist/womanist impulses shape and sustain environmental justice movements around the world, making an understanding of gender roles and differences crucial for the success of these efforts.

Language:

English

Language Note:

English

Physical Type/Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

General Note:

Description based upon print version of record.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9936954556002486

ISBN:

1-283-59203-7
9786613904485
0-8135-4253-7

OCLC Number:

804665137

Other Identifiers:

doi: 10.36019/9780813542539