| Book Review | Environmental History, 11.2

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Book Review

Nature's Altars: Mountains, Gender, and American Environmentalism. By Susan R. Schrepfer. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2005. xii+316 pp. Map, illustrations, notes, index. $35.
For over a decade there has been a lot of talk about the need to combine gender and environmental history, but the talk too seldom has been matched by the production of substantive works. At last that is beginning to change.	1
With Nature's Altars, Susan Schrepfer has given us an outstanding example of how to use the techniques of gender history to illuminate traditional environmental history topics—in this case, mountain climbing and wilderness preservation. Schrepfer's approach is at once social and cultural: social, in that she shows us how the experience of mountains and climbing differed along lines of gender; cultural, because she illuminates how tropes of gender shaped both sexes' understanding of rugged, western landscapes.	. . .

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