Department or Program
Environmental Studies
Abstract
My research project aims to determine the effects of environmental toxins on women in both the stereotypical gender-based roles and in reproductive terms. The questions that I seek to answer in this thesis are “How do environmental toxins disproportionately affect women and how has this been exemplified during both the Love Canal controversy and in breast cancer exposure to environmental toxins?” and “How are these disproportionate effects related to Environmental Justice and Ecofeminism?”. The goal of my thesis is to investigate how Love Canal, breast cancer, Environmental Justice, and Ecofeminism overlap to reveal how environmental toxins present within our society have disproportionately affected women.
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First Advisor
Susan Stark
Date of Graduation
Spring 5-2014
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Recommended Citation
Dawson, Hadley P., "The Disproportionate Effects of Environmental Toxins on Women: A Study of Love Canal and Breast Cancer Exposure in Relation to Environmental Justice and Ecofeminism" (2014). Standard Theses. 34.
https://scarab.bates.edu/envr_studies_theses/34
Number of Pages
44
Components of Thesis
1 pdf file
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