Gender and Environment (Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts) - Hardcover

Buckingham, Susan

 
9780415168199: Gender and Environment (Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts)

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.

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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.

Review

"The author's discussion of why women are 'missing' on a global scale is most impressive."
--P.W. Kaufman, "Choice

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ISBN 10:  0415168201 ISBN 13:  9780415168205
Publisher: Routledge, 2000
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