Women Reclaiming Sustainable Livelihoods [electronic resource] : Spaces Lost, Spaces Gained /
Harcourt, Wendy.author.
Harcourt, Wendy,1959-
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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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Prologue; 1 Women Reclaiming Sustainable Livelihoods: An Introduction; 2 Redefining Sustainable Livelihoods; Section I Framing Gender and Livelihood Concerns Today; 3 Women Advocating for Sustainable Livelihoods and Gender Equality on the Global Stage; 4 Towards Gender Equality in Global Sustainable Consumption and Production Agreements; 5 Gender Equality in Certified Agricultural Value Chains
6 Global Agricultural Policies, Institutional Interventions, and Women's Livelihoods7 Global Institutions Try to Get It Right: An Insider's Perspective; Section II Gender and Livelihoods in Place; 8 Your Caring Sharing Co-op: Women, Work and Sustainability in a Polanyian Paradigm; 9 Gender and Sustainable Livelihoods in India: 'Side-Stream'/'Mainstream'; 10 The Dream Merchants Have No Clothes: Women's Rights and Empowerment in the Microfinance Regime; 11 The Cost of Peace: Exploring Opportunities for Women's Livelihoods in Post-conflict Settings
12 Sustaining Women's and Community Livelihoods in Rural Tanzania13 Sustainable Livelihoods and Gender in the Marginal Alpine Communities of Trentino; 14 Indigenous Women Claiming Their Land; Section III Emerging Issues for Gender and Livelihoods; 15 Biocapital, Biopolitics and Biosocialities: Reframing Health, Livelihoods and Environments with New Genetics and Biotechnology; 16 Gender and Sustainable Livelihoods in Urban Honiara; 17 Gender and Climate Justice; 18 Epilogue: Green-Washing Warnings; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Political science.
Sociology.
Environmental policy.
Economic development.
Social change.
Political sociology.
Political Science.
Gender Studies.
Environmental Politics.
Development Studies.
Development and Social Change.
Political Sociology.