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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Wendy Harcourt |
ISBN: | 9780230316485 0230316484 |
OCLC Number: | 774489512 |
Description: | xiii, 274 pages ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | Women Reclaiming Sustainable Livelihoods / W. Harcourt & J. Stremmelaar ; Redefining Sustainable Livelihoods / S. Krishna. -- PARTI: Framing gender and livelihood concerns today. Women Advocating for Gender Equality and Sustainable Livelihoods on the Global Stage / I. Dankelman ; Towards Gender Equality in Global Sustainable Consumption and Production Agreements / K. Sexsmith ; Gender Equality in Certified Agricultural Value Chains / N. Verhart & R. Pyburn ; Global Agricultural Policies, Institutional Interventions and Women's Livelihoods / A. Rao ; Global Institutions Try to Get it Right: An Insider's Perspective / G. Bloom. -- PART II: Gender and livelihoods in place. Your Caring Sharing Co-op: Women, Work and Sustainability in a Polanyian Paradigm / M.S. Cato ; Gender and Sustainable Livelihoods in India: 'Side-stream'/'Mainstream' / S. Krishna ; The Dream Merchants Have No Clothes: Women's Rights and Empowerment in the Micro Finance Regime / S.K. Parthasarathy ; The Cost of Peace: Exploring Opportunities for Women's Livelihoods in Post Conflict Settings / S. Aguiari ; Sustaining Women's and Community Livelihoods in Rural Tanzania / M. Masaiganah ; Sustainable Livelihoods and Gender in the Marginal Alpine Communities of Trentino / M. Zucca ; Indigenous Women Claiming Their Land / M.B. Rius. -- PART III: Emerging issues for gender and livelihoods. Biocapital, Biopolitics and Biosocialities: Reframing Health, Livelihoods and Environments with New Genetics and Biotechnology / L. Acero ; Gender and Sustainable Livelihoods in Urban Honiara / A. Lacey ; Gender and Climate Justice / A. Agostino & R. Lizarde. |
Series Title: | Gender, development and social change. |
Responsibility: | edited by Wendy Harcourt, Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and editor of Development International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, the Hague, the Netherlands. |
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Abstract:
This volume highlights women's work sustaining local economies and environments, particularly in response to the current food, fuel and climate crises. It includes women's role in the green entrepreneurship, women's reproductive and productive work in the care economy, and a further examination of eco feminist debates.
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"Women Reclaiming Sustainable Livelihoods is a timely, well-edited collection of essays that explores women's roles in, and relationship to, the sustainable development ne'e environmental movement . . . It unpacks the mainstream assumptions that negatively influence what Harcourt and the authors of the collection argue are truly sustainable approaches to women's and men's livelihoods." - Signs Read more...
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- Women in development.
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