Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
Part One. Gender, Sexuality, and Environmental Justice: Historical
and Theoretical Roots
1. Toward a Queer Ecofeminism
2. Women, Sexuality, and Environmental Justice in American
History
Part Two. Gender, Sexuality, and Activism
3. Feminist Theory and Environmental Justice
4. Witness to Truth: Black Women Heeding the Call for Environmental
Justice
5. The Role of Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Class in Activists'
Perceptions of Environmental Justice
6. Sexual Politics and Environmental Justice: Lesbian Separatists
in Rural Oregon
7. Toxic Bodies? ACT UP's Disruption of the Heteronormative
Landscape of the Nation
Part Three. Gender, Sexuality, and Environmental Health
Concerns
8. Producing "Roundup Ready" Communities? Human Genome Research and
Environmental Justice Policy
9. Public Eyes: Investigating the Causes of Breast Cancer
10. Gender, Asthma Politics, and Urban Environmental Justice
Activism
11. No Remedy for the Inuit: Accountability for Environmental Harms
under U.S. and International Law
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
13. Home Everywhere and the Injured Body of the World: The
Subversive Humor of Blue Vinyl
14. "Lo que quiero es tierra": Longing and Belonging in Cherrie
Moraga's Ecological Vision
15. Detecting Toxic Environments: Gay Mystery as Environmental
Justice
16. "The Power is Your, Planeteers!" Race, Gender, and Sexuality in
Children's Environmental Popular Culture
Notes on Contributors
Index
"Despite the fact that I have studied environmental justice from a women's centered perspective for the past twenty years, every page of this book taught me something new. I found it so engaging that I couldn't bear to put it down."
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