Gender and Environment (Routledge Introductions to Environment)

✍ Scribed by BuckingHam-Hatf

• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 155
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Accessible and lively, this is the first introductory level text to introduce the key issues in the rapidly growing area of gender and environment. This text provides an analysis of how gender relations affect the natural environment and of how environmental issues have a differential impact on women and men.Using case studies from the developed and developing worlds, this text covers· gendered roles in the family· community and international connections· conception· giving birth· western practices· the body and the self.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Series-title......Page 3
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Series editors’ preface: Environment and Society titles......Page 7
Figures......Page 10
Tables......Page 11
Boxes......Page 12
Author’s preface......Page 13
Acknowledgements......Page 15
1 Linking gender and the environment......Page 17
Defining gender......Page 19
Development of gender roles......Page 20
Society, gender and environment......Page 23
Structure of the book......Page 24
Note......Page 26
2 The making of science: it’s a man’s world......Page 27
Origins of Western scientific thought......Page 28
Female and male roles in the practice of science......Page 30
The gendering of science......Page 37
Redressing the gender bias in science......Page 42
Summary......Page 46
Notes......Page 47
3 Explaining gender-environment relationships......Page 49
Cultural eco-feminism......Page 51
Social eco-feminism......Page 52
Critiques and ideals......Page 53
Summary......Page 57
Discussion question......Page 58
Further reading......Page 61
4 The body and the environment......Page 62
Normal male/deviant female......Page 63
Wise women to medical men......Page 64
Missing women......Page 68
The gendered effects of pollution......Page 72
Summary......Page 76
Further reading......Page 77
Note......Page 78
The organisation of the household......Page 79
The domestic division of labour......Page 83
Growing and harvesting......Page 90
Water and fuelwood collection......Page 91
Shopping......Page 92
Summary......Page 96
Further reading......Page 97
Notes......Page 98
6 Gendered roles in the community......Page 99
Gender and power......Page 100
Planning......Page 102
Politics......Page 104
Non-governmental organisations......Page 107
The gendering of environmental protest......Page 108
Agenda 21......Page 114
Summary......Page 117
Discussion questions......Page 118
Notes......Page 119
7 The international dimension......Page 121
The international political economy......Page 122
Gender and investment......Page 125
International interventions......Page 129
Summary......Page 132
Note......Page 133
8 Conclusions......Page 135
Explanations of gender-environment relations......Page 136
Environmental problems and gender......Page 137
Strategies for changing gender-environment relations......Page 138
Appendix: further information......Page 140
References......Page 142
Index......Page 151