Women pioneers for the environment / Mary Joy Breton.
Women pioneers for the environment / Mary Joy Breton.
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Publisher
Boston : Northeastern University Press, c1998.
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G 2013/7823
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Language
English
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Physical content
xiv, 322 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Ch. 1. Tree Huggers and Tree Planters: Amrita Devi, Wangari Maathai, Colleen McCrory, Judi Bari, Harriet Bullitt, Kathryn Fuller -- Ch. 2. First Lady of Environmental Science: Ellen Swallow -- Ch. 3. Early Municipal Housekeepers: Caroline Bartlett, Mary Eliza McDowell -- Ch. 4. Whistle-Blowers under...
Ch. 11. Women and Wildlife: Harriet Hemenway, Margaret Murie, Sarah James, Sylvia Earle, Katharine Ordway -- Ch. 12. Women and International Forums: Bella Abzug.
Publication information
Publisher
Boston : Northeastern University Press, c1998.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
c1998.
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Summary
"Mary Joy Breton provides absorbing sketches of more than forty women activists in the Americas, Eastern and Western Europe, Africa, and Asia, recounting the special ways in which each stepped out of her traditional role and dedicated her life to saving the planet. Breton interweaves her accounts with narrative on the ecological hazards that drove...
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Women pioneers for the environment / Mary Joy Breton.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-309) and index.
State Reference Library copy: transferred from REF N363.700922/3.
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c1998.
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G 2013/7823
Record Identifier
74VvrloqopVA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvrloqopVA
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ISBN
1555533655 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781555533656 (cloth : alk. paper)
DDC
363.700922
MMS ID
991011492159702626
