In recent years the relationship between gender and the environment has become more explicit and apparent. Women's work is often linked to the environment through subsistence agriculture, domestic chores and hired work such as sowing and weeding, and much of this work is made harder through environmental degradation. The relationship between gender and the environment is less obvious in the West where most people are more distant from the source of their food supply, the energy and the water they use. However, because women conceive, carry, give birth to and suckle their children, they are brought closer to an awareness of a number of environmental hazards. Gender and Environment 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. It provides an analysis of how gender relations affect the natural environment and of how environmental issues have a differential impact on women and men.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN-13
9780415168199
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95832037
Product Key Features
Author
Susan Buckingham
Publication Name
Gender and Environment
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Geography & Geosciences, Zoology
Publication Year
2000
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
156 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
234mm
Item Width
156mm
Item Weight
363g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Susan Buckingham
Series Title
Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts