Women''s Voices From the Rainforest

Informationen zum Autor Janet Gabriel Townsend Klappentext Women's Voices from the Rainforest explores the position of the women whose families are tearing down the rainforest. These women of Central and Latin America have been largely invisible until now, but they are at last turning their voices into action. International development policy and its top-down culture must take much of the blame for environmental and social destruction of the rainforest. Presenting the contrasting results of different methodologies, a comprehensive literature review, and the voices of the rainforest women themselves, told in life histories, the authors argue for the adoption of "grassroots" strategies, not international solutions. Zusammenfassung International development policy is responsible for much of the destruction of Central and Latin American rainforests. This explores how indigenous women are at last turning their voices to action, demanding grassroots strategies as the solution. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements, PREFACE: THREE CONVERSIONS, Part 1 Outsiders, Part 2 Outsiders and insiders, Part 3 Insiders’ voices? Mexican women speak, Bibliography, Index

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• Authors: Janet Arrevillaga Townsend, Janet Etc. Arrevillaga Townsend, Janet G. Townsend, Janet Gabriel Townsend, Janet Gabriel Arrevillaga Townsend, TOWNSEND JANET ETC ARREVILLAGA, Townsend Janet Gabriel
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.01.1995
• EAN: 9780415105316
• ISBN: 978-0-415-10531-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place; Environmental Philosophies Ser; Routledge International Studies of Women and Place
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; South America, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Feminism & feminist theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Development Studies, Central America, Mexico and Central America