Women Reclaiming Sustainable Livelihoods

Spaces Lost, Spaces Gained

  • Wendy Harcourt
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Part of the Gender, Development and Social Change series book series (GDSC)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Women Reclaiming Sustainable Livelihoods: An Introduction

    1. Women Reclaiming Sustainable Livelihoods: An Introduction
      Wendy Harcourt, Josine Stremmelaar
      Pages 1-11

  3. Redefining Sustainable Livelihoods

    1. Redefining Sustainable Livelihoods
      Sumi Krishna
      Pages 12-18

  4. Framing Gender and Livelihood Concerns Today

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 19-19
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    2. Women Advocating for Sustainable Livelihoods and Gender Equality on the Global Stage
      Irene Dankelman
      Pages 21-41
    3. Towards Gender Equality in Global Sustainable Consumption and Production Agreements
      Kathleen Sexsmith
      Pages 42-61
    4. Gender Equality in Certified Agricultural Value Chains
      Noortje Verhart, Rhiannon Pyburn
      Pages 62-82
    5. Global Agricultural Policies, Institutional Interventions, and Women’s Livelihoods
      Aruna Rao
      Pages 83-100
    6. Global Institutions Try to Get It Right: An Insider’s Perspective
      Gretchen Bloom
      Pages 101-106

  5. Gender and Livelihoods in Place

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 107-107
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    2. Your Caring Sharing Co-op: Women, Work and Sustainability in a Polanyian Paradigm
      Molly Scott Cato
      Pages 109-124
    3. Gender and Sustainable Livelihoods in India: ‘Side Stream’/‘Mainstream’
      Sumi Krishna
      Pages 125-141
    4. The Dream Merchants Have No Clothes: Women’s Rights and Empowerment in the Microfinance Regime
      Soma Kishore Parthasarathy
      Pages 142-161
    5. The Cost of Peace: Exploring Opportunities for Women’s Livelihoods in Post-conflict Settings
      Sabrina Aguiari
      Pages 162-179
    6. Sustaining Women’s and Community Livelihoods in Rural Tanzania
      Mwajuma Masaiganah
      Pages 180-190
    7. Sustainable Livelihoods and Gender in the Marginal Alpine Communities of Trentino
      Micdiela Zucca
      Pages 191-212
    8. Indigenous Women Claiming Their Land
      Marisa Belausteguigoitia Rius
      Pages 213-219

  6. Emerging Issues for Gender and Livelihoods

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 219-219
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    2. Biocapital, Biopolitics and Biosocialities: Reframing Health, Livelihoods and Environments with New Genetics and Biotechnology
      Liliana Acero
      Pages 221-237
    3. Gender and Sustainable Livelihoods in Urban Honiara
      Anita Lacey
      Pages 238-256

About this book

Introduction

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.

Keywords

capital care community conflict economy environment feminism gender Institution intervention Nation sustainability technology women work

Editors and affiliations

  • Wendy Harcourt
    • 1
  1. 1.Erasmus UniversityThe HagueThe Netherlands

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