This Elusive Land: Women and the Canadian Environment Book

	Introduction : women and environment
1	Little goody two-shoes : reassessing the work of Catharine Parr Traill	4
2	Environmentalism, hermeneutics, and Canadian imperialism in Agnes Deans Cameron's The new north	19
3	Wilderness wives : domestic economy and women's participation in nature	35
4	And the young man did go north (unfortunately) : reflections on issues in gender and the academy	57
5	Environmental, industrial, and political restructuring and the health of women processing workers in Newfoundland's fishery-dependent communities	82
6	Working at the margins of forestry : the gender of labour practices on British Columbia's west coast	102
7	People for pigs in Pleasant-Land : small-scale women farmers	128
8	Where the mountain men meet the lesbian rangers : gender, nation, and nature in the Rocky Mountain national parks	142
9	The public, the private, the planet, and the province : women's quality-of-life activism in urban southern Ontario	169
10	Desperately seeking sisterhood and sustainability : creating transnational social learning spaces for sustainable agriculture and environmental advocacy	188
11	Too close to home : dioxin contamination of breast milk and the political agenda	213
12	Acting locally : mapping and countermapping toward a grassroots feminist cartography	243
13	Tracing amorous journeys from the Sweetwater to Watson Lake : environmental ecstasies of Willa Cather and Aritha van Herk	270
14	The fall of the wild? : feminist perspectives of Canadian wilderness protection	281
15	A vision of transformation : ecofeminist spiritualities in Canada	300
16	The listening world : First Nations women writers and the environment	316