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New Perspectives on Environmental Justice

Gender, Sexuality, and Activism
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2004

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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.

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    Frontmatter

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    CONTENTS

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    Acknowledgments

    xi
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    Foreword

    xiii
    Winona Laduke
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    Introduction

    1
    Rachel Stein
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  • PART ONE. Gender, Sexuality, and Environmental Justice: Historical and Theoretical Roots
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    1 Toward a Queer Ecofeminism

    21
    Greta Gaard
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    2 Women, Sexuality, and Environmental Justice in American History

    45
    Nancy C. Unger
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  • PART TWO. Gender, Sexuality, and Activism
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    3 Feminist Theory and Environmental Justice

    63
    Robert R. M. Verchick
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    4 Witness to Truth: Black Women Heeding the Call for Environmental Justice

    78
    Valerie Ann Kaalund
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    5 The Role of Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Class in Activists’ Perceptions of Environmental Justice

    93
    Diane-Michele Prindeville
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    6 Sexual Politics and Environmental Justice: Lesbian Separatists in Rural Oregon

    109
    Catriona Sandilands
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    7 Toxic Bodies? ACT UP’s Disruption of the Heteronormative Landscape of the Nation

    127
    Beth Berila
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  • PART THREE. Gender, Sexuality, and Environmental Health Concerns
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    8 Producing “Roundup Ready®” Communities? Human Genome Research and Environmental Justice Policy

    139
    Giovanna Di Chiro
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    9 Public Eyes: Investigating the Causes of Breast Cancer

    161
    Marcy Jane Knopf-Newman
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    10 Gender, Asthma Politics, and Urban Environmental Justice Activism

    177
    Julie Sze
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    11 No Remedy for the Inuit: Accountability for Environmental Harms under U.S. and International Law

    191
    Anne E. Lucas
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  • PART FOUR. Gender, Sexuality, and Environmental Justice in Literature and Popular Culture
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    12 Bodily Invasions: Gene Trading and Organ Theft in Octavia Butler and Nalo Hopkinson’s Speculative Fiction

    209
    Rachel Stein
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    13 Home Everywhere and the Injured Body of the World: The Subversive Humor of Blue Vinyl

    225
    Arlene Plevin
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    14 “Lo que quiero es tierra”: Longing and Belonging in Cherríe Moraga’s Ecological Vision

    240
    Priscilla Solis Ybarra
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    15 Detecting Toxic Environments: Gay Mystery as Environmental Justice

    249
    Katie Hogan
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    16 “The Power is Yours, Planeteers!” Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Children’s Environmental Popular Culture

    262
    Noël Sturgeon
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    Notes on Contributors

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    Index

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June 25, 2004
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9780813542539
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https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813542539
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Keywords for this book
environmental justice; grassroots movements; women activists; poor communities; people of color communities; New Perspectives on Environmental Justice; essays; contributions; gender; sexuality; activism; environmental health campaigns; cancer research; AIDSHIV activism; Environmental Genome Project; popular culture; sexual justice; law; environmental studies; sociology; political science; history; medical anthropology; American studies; English; African and African American studies; women's studies; gay and lesbian studies; feminist; womanist; gender roles; differences; success of movements.
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