Cover -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. "HOW COULD I STAND BY?": PROTECTING ONE PLACE, PROTECTING MANY -- Sally Herman -- Fernell Cryar -- Barbara Leleux -- Catherine Holcomb -- Monica Laughlin Mancuso -- Helen Solar -- Miriam Price -- Chapter Two. "WE ARE BLACK AND WHITE, RICH AND POOR": CROSSING BOUNDARIES, REMAKING LOUISIANA -- Ann Williams -- Rose Jackson -- Marietta Herr -- Ruth Shepherd -- Theresa Robert -- Kay Gaudet -- Chapter Three. "I KNOW THAT IT WAS A REVELATION FROM GOD": RELIGION AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION -- Lorena Pospisil -- Shirley Goldsmith -- Gerry Ardoin -- Janice Crador -- Debra Ramirez -- Chapter Four. "WHAT A FEW PEOPLE CAN DO": LEARNING TO ADVOCATE FOR OTHERS -- Jessie Price -- Gay Hanks -- Mary Brasseaux -- Florence Robinson -- Mary Ellender -- Carol Savoy -- Chapter Five. "YOU ARE NOT SOMEBODY PRETENDING TO BE A MAN": SUCCESS, POLITICS, AND GENDER -- Mildred Fossier -- Mary McCastle -- Florence Gossen -- Clara Baudoin -- Liz Avants -- Les Ann Kirkland -- Mary Tutwiler -- Chapter Six. "WHEN SOMETHING IS NOT RIGHT, YOU HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT": CAREER ACTIVISTS BUILD BRIDGES -- Sister Helen Vinton -- Lorna Bourg -- Marylee Orr -- Linda King -- Wilma Subra -- Chapter Seven. "WE AS A PEOPLE ARE BETTER THAN OUR POLITICS": ALLIES, EXPERTS, AND ADVERSARIES -- Charles Elson "Buddy" Roemer -- Carroll Wascom -- Maureen O'Neill -- Kai David Midboe -- Dan Borne -- Robert Kuehn -- Audrey Evans -- Paul Templet -- Will Collette -- William "Willie" A. Fontenot -- Chapter Eight. "THERE WAS NEVER A QUESTION OF DATA": PERSPECTIVES FROM TEN YEARS OUT -- Wilma Subra -- Supplemental List of Women Environmental Activists -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.