Gender and Environment

Klappentext Introduces all the key areas in gender/environment relations in a lively and accessible manner! using case studies from North and South and covering relationships at the family! community and international levels. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Buckingham, Susan Buckingham-Hatfield, Susan Buckingham Hatfield
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.04.2000
• EAN: 9780415168205
• ISBN: 978-0-415-16820-5
• No. of pages: 156
• Series: Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts; Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works