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  Domestic Broils: Shakers, Antebellum Marriage, And The Narratives Of Mary And Joseph Dyer

  Elizabeth A. DeWolfe

  
  

  In 1813, Joseph Dyer, his wife Mary, and their five children joined the Shaker community in Enfield, New Hampshire. Joseph quickly adapted to the Shaker way of life, but Mary chafed under its strictures and eventually left the community two years later. When the local elders and her husband refused to release the couple's children to Mary, she embarked on what would become a fifty-year campaign against the Shakers,... Read More

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  Such News Of The Land: U.S. Women Nature Writers

  Thomas S. Edwards and Elizabeth A. DeWolfe

  
  

  This pathbreaking collection, which contains 19 essays from scholars in a variety of fields, illuminates the work of two centuries of American women nature writers. Some discuss traditional nature writers such as Susan Fenimore Cooper, Mary Austin, Gene Stratton Porter, and Annie Dillard. Others examine the work of Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Anzaldua, and Leslie Marmon Silko, writers not often associated with this genre. Essays on germinal texts such... Read More

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  Conversations In The Rainforest: Culture, Values, And The Environment In Central Africa

  Richard B. Peterson

  
  

  This book examines the environmental perceptions, values, and practices of inhabitants of Central Africa’s rainforests in order to help build a more firm foundation for ecological and social sustainability at the local level, while also making contributions to global environmental ethics from underrepresented African cultural traditions. It focuses on two case studies in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), one an integrated health and sustainable development project in the... Read More