2011/06/01 by Susan Mann · 3 citations
Environmental Science · Social Sciences · #American Environmental and Regional History #Geographies of human-animal interactions #Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
paper · doi:10.1353/ff.2011.0028
openalex publication_date 2011/06/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
From the late-nineteenth through the early decades of the twentieth century, women in the United States played important roles in the conservation and preservation of wildlife, as well as in environmental activism that fostered clean air, water, and food in our nation's urban centers. This article examines the contributions of women of different classes and races to these environmental struggles. It not only synthesizes the findings of previous environmental histories, but also focuses more attention on the ways environmental contamination affected the lives of women of color and their struggles against environmental racism. In this way, an environmental justice lens is used to excavate and reclaim the history of our ecofeminist predecessors to better ensure that the visions and voices of marginalized peoples do not remain hidden from history.