{"id":844,"date":"2009-03-23T17:49:44","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T21:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/?p=844"},"modified":"2009-03-23T18:15:28","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T22:15:28","slug":"women-taking-the-lead-to-save-our-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/women-taking-the-lead-to-save-our-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Taking the Lead to Save our Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"

In celebration of Women’s History Month, The National History Women’s Project (NHWP)<\/a> is recognizing women in the forefront of the environmental movement. From the instinctual ecological considerations of gathering to battling the political complexities of bureaucracies and industries, women have always played a role in protecting and sustaining the world around them.<\/p>\n

During the month of March the FAU library, Boca campus, is displaying books in the lobby highlighting women’s relationship to the environment. Browse titles from Florida’s own Marjory Stoneman Douglas such as The everglades: River of grass<\/em><\/a> and The wide brim: early poems and ponderings by Marjory Stoneman Douglas<\/a>, <\/em>or NHWP’s featured honoree Rachael Carson’s selected writings,\u00a0The house of life: Rachel Carson at work<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n


\nFind these\u00a0selected titles\u00a0in the lobby, and on the library’s shelves after March:<\/p>\n

American<\/span> women<\/span> conservationists<\/span> : twelve profiles
\n<\/strong><\/em>By Madelyn Holmes. McFarland, 2004.
\nCall Number: QH26.H66 2004<\/a><\/p>\n

Ecofeminism<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Marla Mies & Vandana Shiva, Fernwood Publications, 1993.
\nCall Number: HQ1233 .M547 1993<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Life and Death of Petra Kelly<\/strong><\/em>
\nBy Sara Parkin. Pandora, 1994
\nCall Number: DD260.65.K45 P37 1994<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Revealing new worlds: three Victorian women naturalists
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Suzanne Le May Sheffield. Routledge, 2001.
\nCall Number: HQ1595.A3S54 2001<\/a><\/p>\n

Shrinking<\/span> the<\/span> cat<\/span> : genetic engineering before we knew about genes<\/em><\/strong>
\nby Sue Hubbell; with illustrations by Liddy Hubbell. Houghton Mifflin, 2001.
\nCall Number: S494.H83 2001<\/a><\/p>\n

Silent Spring
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Rachel Carson; drawings by Lois and Louis Darling. Houghton Mifflin, 1962.
\nCall Number: QH31.C33B7<\/a><\/p>\n

Such news of the land: U.S. women nature writers
\n<\/em><\/strong>Edited by Thomas S. Edwards and Elizabeth A. De Wolfe.\u00a0 University Press of New England, 2001.
\nCall Number: PS163.E39 2001<\/a><\/p>\n

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