| Summary: | Acknowledgments -- Foreword / Winona Laduke -- Introduction / Rachel Stein -- Pt. One. Gender, sexuality, and environmental justice: historical and theoretical roots -- 1. Toward a queer ecofeminism / Greta Gaard -- 2. Women, sexuality, and environmental justice in American history / Nancy C. Unger -- Pt. Two. Gender, sexuality, and activism -- 3. Feminist theory and environmental justice / Robert R.M. Verchick -- 4. Witness to truth: black women heeding the call for environmental justice / Valerie Ann Kaalund -- 5. The role of gender, race/ethnicity, and class in activists' perceptions of environmental justice / Diane-Michele Prindeville -- 6. Sexual politics and environmental justice: lesbian separatists in rural Oregon / Catriona Sandilands -- 7. Toxic bodies? ACT UP's disruption of the hetronormative landscape of the nation / Beth Berila -- Pt. Three. Gender, sexuality, and environmental health concerns -- 8. Producing "roundup ready communities? Human genome research and environmental justice policy / Giovanna Di Chiro -- 9. Public eyes: investigating the causes of breast cancer / Marcy Jane Knopf-Newman -- 10. Gender, asthma politics, and urban environmental justice activism / Julie Sze -- 11. No remedy for the Inuit: accountability for environmental harms under U.S. and international law / Anne E. Lucas -- Pt. Four. Gender, sexuality, and environmental justice in literature and popular culture -- 12. Bodily invasions: gene trading and organ theft in Octavia Butler and Nalo Hopkinson s speculative fiction / Rachel Stein -- 13. Home everywhere and the injured body of the world: the subversive humor of Blue Vinyl / Arlene Plevin -- 14. "Lo que quiero es tierra": longing and belonging in Cherríe Moraga's ecological vision / Priscilla Solis Ybarra -- 15. Detecting toxic environments: gay mystery as environmental justice / Katie Hogan -- 16. "The power is yours, planeteers!" Race, gender, and sexuality in children's environmental popular culture / Noël Sturgeon -- Notes on contributors -- Index
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