New Perspectives on Environmental Justice: Gender, Sexuality, and Activism

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.

Author: Rachel Stein
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 06/10/2004
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.04w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9780813534275

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2005 pg. 874
Choice 06/01/2008 pg. 1710