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New Perspectives on Environmental Justice This content downloaded from 100.40.182.229 on Sun, 07 Jun 2020 22:00:50 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from 100.40.182.229 on Sun, 07 Jun 2020 22:00:50 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms New Perspectives on Environmental Justice Gender, Sexuality, and Activism EDITED BY RACHEL STEIN RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY, AND LONDON This content downloaded from 100.40.182.229 on Sun, 07 Jun 2020 22:00:50 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA New perspectives on environmental justice :gender, sexuality, and activism / edited by Rachel Stein. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN –--(hardcover : alk. paper) — ISBN ---(pbk : alk. paper) . Environmental justice. . Women environmentalists. . Women in politics. I. Stein, Rachel. GE.N .—dc A British Cataloging-in-Publication record for this book is available from the British Library This collection copyright © 2004 by Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey For copyrights to individual pieces please see first page of each essay. All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. Please contact Rutgers University Press, 100 Joyce Kilmer Avenue, Piscataway, NJ 08854–8099. The only exception to this prohibition is “fair use” as defined by U.S. copyright law. Manufactured in the United States of America This content downloaded from 100.40.182.229 on Sun, 07 Jun 2020 22:00:50 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms To the honest human body, and the body’s world This content downloaded from 100.40.182.229 on Sun, 07 Jun 2020 22:00:50 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from 100.40.182.229 on Sun, 07 Jun 2020 22:00:50 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms CONTENTS Acknowledgments xi Foreword xiii WINONA LADUKE Introduction 1 RACHEL STEIN PART ONE Gender, Sexuality, and Environmental Justice: Historical and Theoretical Roots 1 Toward a Queer Ecofeminism 21 GRETA GAARD 2 Women, Sexuality, and Environmental Justice in American History 45 NANCY C. UNGER PART TWO Gender, Sexuality, and Activism 3 Feminist Theory and Environmental Justice 63 ROBERT R. M. VERCHICK 4 Witness to Truth: Black Women Heeding the Call for Environmental Justice 78 VALERIE ANN KAALUND 5 The Role of Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Class in Activists’ Perceptions of Environmental Justice 93 DIANE-MICHELE PRINDEVILLE vii This content downloaded from 100.40.182.229 on Sun, 07 Jun 2020 21:42:40 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms viii CONTENTS 6 Sexual Politics and Environmental Justice: Lesbian Separatists in Rural Oregon 109 CATRIONA SANDILANDS 7 Toxic Bodies? ACT UP’s Disruption of the Heteronormative Landscape of the Nation 127 BETH BERILA PART THREE Gender, Sexuality, and Environmental Health Concerns 8 Producing “Roundup Ready®” Communities? Human Genome Research and Environmental Justice Policy 139 GIOVANNA DI CHIRO 9 Public Eyes: Investigating the Causes of Breast Cancer 161 MARCY JANE KNOPF-NEWMAN 10 Gender, Asthma Politics, and Urban Environmental Justice Activism 177 JULIE SZE 11 No Remedy for the Inuit: Accountability for Environmental Harms under U.S. and International Law 191 ANNE E. LUCAS PART 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 209 RACHEL STEIN 13 Home Everywhere and the Injured Body of the World: The Subversive Humor of Blue Vinyl 225 ARLENE PLEVIN 14 “Lo que quiero es tierra”: Longing and Belonging in Cherríe Moraga’s Ecological Vision 240 PRISCILLA SOLIS YBARRA This content downloaded from 100.40.182.229 on Sun, 07 Jun 2020 21:42:40 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms CONTENTS ix 15 Detecting Toxic Environments: Gay Mystery as Environmental Justice 249 KATIE HOGAN 16 “The Power is Yours, Planeteers!” Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Children’s Environmental Popular Culture 262 NOËL STURGEON Notes on Contributors 277 Index 281 This content downloaded from 100.40.182.229 on Sun, 07 Jun 2020 21:42:40 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from 100.40.182.229 on Sun, 07 Jun 2020 21:42:40 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms
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