[E&E seminars] MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History, March 19, 2010

[Margo Collett]

MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History

"'Pilgrims of the Vertical':  Rethinking Gender Analysis in Environmental History"

Joseph E. Taylor III
Simon Fraser University and University of Portland

Taylor's forthcoming Pilgrims of the Vertical: Yosemite Rock Climbers and Nature at Risk recounts the history of Yosemite Valley's globally significant rock climbing scene.  Beyond the thrills offered by Yosemite's walls, however, this story draws telling links between sport, environmental values, and consumerism.  Climbing history also offers an important corrective to the way environmental historians have thought about gender analysis within the field.  Taylor will focus on the earliest period of modern technical climbing in Yosemite in order to suggest that paying greater attention to the social contexts within which gender was performed offers a fruitful path for future work.

Friday, March 19, 2010
2:30 to 4:30 pm
Building E51 Room 095
Corner of Wadsworth and Amherst Street, Cambridge

Sponsored by MIT's History Faculty and the Program in Science, Technology, and Society. For more information or to be put on the mailing list contact mcollett at mit.edu.


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