Women Working in the Environment: Resourceful Natures

ISBN-13: 9781138425712 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 330 str.

Carolyn E. Sachs

Opis

With increasing concern for global environmental health and the future of our existing ecosystems, new approaches to environmental problems are being explored. This book contains work from leading feminist voices in the discussion who are interested in men's and women's different responses.

Spis treści

Contents 1.Introduction:Connecting Women and Environment PART ONE:GENDER DIVISIONS OF LABOR IN AGRICUlTURE, MINING AND FISHING COMMUNITIES 2.Women's Forest Work in Laos 3.The Underground Proving Ground:Women and Men in an Appalachian Coal Mine 4.Gender, Culture, and the Sea: Contemporary Theoretical Approaches 5.Women's Status in Peasant-level Fishing PART TWO PROPERTY RITES:ACCESS TO LAND AND WATER 6.Women and Irrigation in Highland Peru 7.Rural Women and Irrigation:Patriarchy, Class, and the Modernizing State in South India 8.Women as Rice Sharecroppers in Madagascar 9.Subsistenceand the Single Woman Among the Amuesha of hte Upper Amazon, Peru PART THREE: WOMEN'S KNOWLEDGE, WORK, AND STRATEGIES FOR SUSTAINABILITY 10.Women and Livestock, Fodder, and Uncultivated Land in Pakistan: A Summary of Role Responsibilities 11.Gender, Seeds, and Biodiveristy 12.Women and Agroforestry:Four Myths and Three Case Studies PART FOUR: THE GENDERING OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS 13.Men, Women, and the Environment:An Examination of the Gender Gap in Environemntal Concern and Activism 14.Making a Big Stink:Women's Work, Women's Relationships and Toxic Waste Activism PART FIVE:POLICY ALTERNATIVES 15.Women and International Forestry Development 16.Women and Community Forestry in Nepal:Expectations and Realities 17.Integrating Gender Diverse and Interdisciplinary Professionals into Traditional U.S. Department of Agriculture-Forest Service Culture

O autorze

Carolyn E. Sachs