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Made from This Earth: American Women and Nature

by Vera Norwood. 368 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Vera Norwood

Publisher:

   University of North Carolina Press

Place of Publication:

  Chapel Hill, NC  

Publication Year:

  1993
Subjects:   Women Naturalists--United States--History, Women Conservationists--United States--History, Ecofeminism
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