1 Little Goody Two-Shoes: Reassessing the Work of Catharine Parr Traill

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Women and Environment vii
4. Explorers and Settlers
5. Little Goody Two-Shoes: Reassessing the Work of Catharine Parr Traill 4
6. Environmentalism, Hermeneutics, and Canadian Imperialism in Agnes Deans Cameron’s The New North 19
7. Wilderness Wives: Domestic Economy and Women’s Participation in Nature 35
8. And the Young Man Did Go North (Unfortunately): Reflections on Issues in Gender and the Academy 57
9. Making a Living: Making a Life
10. Environmental, Industrial, and Political Restructuring and the Health of Women Processing Workers in Newfoundland’s Fishery-Dependent Communities 82
11. Working at the Margins of Forestry: The Gender of Labour Practices on British Columbia’s West Coast 102
12. People for Pigs in Pleasant-Land: Small-Scale Women Farmers 128
13. Where the Mountain Men Meet the Lesbian Rangers: Gender, Nation, and Nature in the Rocky Mountain National Parks 142
14. Environmental Politics: Issues at Home and Away
15. The Public, the Private, the Planet, and the Province: Women’s Quality-of-Life Activism in Urban Southern Ontario 169
16. Desperately Seeking Sisterhood and Sustainability: Creating Transnational Social Learning Spaces for Sustainable Agriculture and Environmental Advocacy 188
17. Too Close to Home: Dioxin Contamination of Breast Milk and the Political Agenda 213
18. Acting Locally: Mapping and Countermapping toward a Grassroots Feminist Cartography 243
19. Rethinking the Environment
20. Tracing Amorous Journeys from the Sweetwater to Watson Lake: Environmental Ecstasies of Willa Cather and Aritha van Herk 270
21. The Fall of the Wild? Feminist Perspectives of Canadian Wilderness Protection 281
22. A Vision of Transformation: Ecofeminist Spiritualities in Canada 300
23. The Listening World: First Nations Women Writers and the Environment 316
24. Conclusion 335
25. Bibliography 341
26. Contributors 365
27. Index 367