Nature's altars : mountains, gender, and American environmentalism
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Nature's altars : mountains, gender, and American environmentalism
University Press of Kansas, c2005
- : cloth
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-297) and index
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Using memoirs and histories, letters and diaries, early photos and old maps, Susan Schrepfer compares male and female mountaineering narratives to show the ways in which gender affected what men and women found to value in rocky heights, and how their different perceptions together defined the wilderness preservation movement for the nation..
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