ISBN:
9781560326298
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (330 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Women Working In The Environment : Resourceful Natures
DDC:
305.42
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Based on theoretical insights from ecofeminism, women and development, and postmodernism, and the convincing empirical work of numerous scholars, this book is organized around five aspects of gender relationships with the environment: Part I-gender divisions of labor, Part 2-property rights, Part 3-knowledge and strategies for sustainability, Part 4-environmental and social movements, and Part 5- policy alternatives. Examining women's relationship with the environment using these five dimensions provides concrete, material examples of how women work with, control, know, and affect the environ
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1 Introduction: Connecting Women and the Environment; Ecofeminism; Women, Environment, and Development; Postmodern Shift; Five Aspects of Gender Relationships; References; Part One Gender Divisions of Labor in Agriculture, Mining, and Fishing Communities; Chapter 2 Women's Forest Work in Laos; Sources of Women's Influence; Background and Setting; Research Design and Procedures; Results; Notes; References; Epilogue; Chapter 3 The Underground Proving Ground: Women and Men in an Appalachian Coal Mine
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IntroductionThe Labor Process of Underground Coal Mining; Women's Entry into the Male Culture of Mining; Theoretical Framework; Methodology; From Red Hat to Miner: Women's Adaptations to Mining; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 4 Gender, Culture, and the Sea: Contemporary Theoretical Approaches; Introduction; Gender and Anthropology; Women on Land and Sea; Gender, Power, Production, and the State; Critiquing Gender; Conclusion; Notes; References; Epilogue; Chapter 5 Women's Status in Peasant-Level Fishing; Introduction; The Community; Women's Economic Activities
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Family Life and Daily ActivitiesLeisure and Friends; Marriage and Kinship Networks; Women's Place: Behavioral Standards in the Fishing Village; Comparative Analysis; Discussion; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Epilogue; Part Two Property Rights: Access to Land and Water; Chapter 6 Women and Irrigation in Highland Peru; Introduction; Women's Work and Structural Subordination; Women and Irrigation; Class, Integration, and Participation in Irrigated Tasks; Women and the Bureaucratic Transition in Highland Irrigation; Conclusions and Implications; Notes; References; Epilogue
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Chapter 7 Rural Women and Irrigation: Patriarchy, Class, and the Modernizing State in South IndiaTheoretical Considerations; The Research Context; Implications for Women of Irrigation as a State Intervention; Transfonnations in the Sexual Division of Labor, Workloads, and Control of the Labor Process; Conclusions and Implications for Development Policy; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Epilogue; Chapter 8 Women as Rice Sharecroppers in Madagascar; Sharecropping and Resource Access; Rice Sharecropping in Alaotra, Madagascar; Women Who Sharecrop; Gender Differences; Conclusions; Notes
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ReferencesEpilogue; Chapter 9 Subsistence and the Single Woman Among the Amuesha of the Upper Amazon, Peru; Introduction; Background; Methods; Results; Discussion; Notes; References; Part Three Women's Knowledge, Work, and Strategies for Sustainability; Chapter 10 Women and Livestock, Fodder, and Uncultivated Land in Pakistan; Introduction; Women and Livestock Husbandry; Women and Fodder; Women and Uncultivated Land; Interdependence of Livestock Husbandry and Agriculture; Women and Livestock in Rainfed and Irrigated Farming Areas; Conclusions and Recommendations; Acknowledgments; Notes
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Description based upon print version of record
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