| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.4

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Book Review

Seeing Nature through Gender. Edited by Virginia J. Scharff. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003. xxii + 345 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $45.00, cloth; $17.95, paper.)

There is one sad truth about environmental history: not much sex. This book fixes that: here there is sex (and gender) on Mt. Rushmore, in Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (Boston, 1962), and even in the hitherto not-so-sexy Oregon Donation Land Act. These thirteen essays move beyond spicy lecture material, though, in exploring the myriad ways in which human bodies and their cultural meanings are formed by their environments while reshaping the nature around them. The volume poses no single thesis, but instead leads the way toward a broader practice of environmental history. It is striking to note, however, especially for western historians, the frequency with which Theodore Roosevelt appears. Several authors use Roosevelt to explore the ways in which men and women have used rural life, labor, and space—and hence a certain construction of nature—to critique the city and to redefine masculinity and femininity in American culture.

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