Nature's Altars: Mountains, Gender, and American Environmentalism.(Book review)

From: Journal of Social History | Date: December 22, 2007| Author: Tebeau, Mark | Copyright information

Nature's Altars: Mountains, Gender, and American Environmentalism. By Susan Schrepfer (Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2005. 316 pp. $35).

In Nature's Altars: Mountains, Gender, and American Environmentalism, Susan Schrepfer explores how men and women understood mountains in the century following the Civil War. Nature's Altars both recasts how we view mountains and also takes fuller account of how gender has mattered in the history of the environment.

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