As we continue to celebrate Women’s History Month, here is a list of new and recent work by women writers whose environmental imaginations keep us all inspired, impassioned, and ready for whatever comes next.
When students critique outdoor fashion on campus, their views reveal gendered, ethnic, and regional stereotypes at play in the local meaning of international brands.
At the New Alchemy Institute’s bioshelters, green technologies promised social revolution. But women still found themselves stuck with the dishes.
While attending a school set up to train the next generation of haenyeo divers, one woman grapples with the historical and ongoing complexities of maintaining the traditional practice.
In American popular culture, from the colonial era to the present, women who venture out into wild places cannot escape the strictures of gender.
A photo essay of mid-century domestic relics open a window on a woman’s hard, heroic, uncelebrated life.
When a long-dominant theory about sexual selection’s role in the evolution of bird song is corrected, what happens to conventional ideas about the sex of singing birds?
A late eighteenth-century painting of a moment that never happened illuminates our complex struggles with how to “deal with” the past.
November 2015 recommendations from the Edge Effects editorial board.
