Gendered Injustice
Navajo Livestock Reduction in the New Deal Era
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3184908 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marsha Weisiger (National Endowment for the Humanities, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 437 |
| Publication date | 2007-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Western Historical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-3810 • E-ISSN: 1939-8603 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/25443605 |
| OpenAlex | W2332122989 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Navajo livestock reduction illuminates the gendered politics of conservation and the crucial contribution of women in resisting environmental injustice. In developing programs to halt soil erosion on the Navajo Reservation, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Soil Conservation Service made matters worse, largely because they ignored the importance of women as livestock owners. Women's resistance helped bring an end to stock reduction and the conservation program
Agriculture · Archaeology · Geography · Injustice · Livestock · Navajo · Political science · Politics · Reservation · Soil conservation · American Environmental and Regional History · American History and Culture · Forestry · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Law
| Citations per year | 0.57 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2024 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |