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Nancy C. Unger<\/font><\/h4>\n

October 14, 2012<\/font><\/h4>\n
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Nancy Unger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fifty years ago Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, exposing the devastating impact of pesticides, especially DDT, on the whole web of life. Time magazine dismissed her as \u201chysterically overemphatic\u201d and the New Yorker published a letter from a reader who complained, \u201cAs for insects, isn\u2019t it just like a woman to be scared to death of a few bugs!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Why is it that men and women have often responded so differently to the environment and environmental issues?\u00a0 From pre-Columbian Native Americans to the modern environmental justice movement, gender has played an underappreciated role in environmental attitudes and actions.\u00a0 In this illustrated presentation<\/a> based on her new book Beyond Nature\u2019s Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History (Oxford University Press), historian Nancy C. Unger reveals how women have played a unique role, for better and sometimes for worse, in the shaping of the American environment.<\/p>\n

 
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