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Title Opposing currents : the politics of water and gender in Latin America / edited by Vivienne Bennett, Sonia Dávila-Poblete, and María Nieves Rico
Published Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2005
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 250 pages)
Series Pitt Latin American series
Pitt Latin American series.
University of Pittsburgh Digital Editions. PPiU
University of Pittsburgh Digital Collections. PPiU
Contents The connection between gender and water management / Margreet Zwarteveen and Vivienne Bennett -- Latin American challenges to global water and gender policies / Sonia Dávila-Poblete and María Nieves Rico -- Gender dimensions of neoliberal water policy in Mexico and Bolivia: empowering or disempowering / Rhodante Ahlers -- Women in the "water war" in the Cochabamba valleys / Rocío Bustamente, Elizabeth Peredo, and María Esther Udaeta -- To make waves: water and privatization in Tucumán, Argentina / Norma Giarraca and Norma del Pozo -- Irrigation management, community participation, and equity in an Andean community / Juana Rosa Vera Delgado -- Water as a source of equity and empowerment in Costa Rica / Lorena Aguilar -- Women, equity, and household water management in the valley of Mexico / Michael C. Ennis-McMillan -- Women and water in the northern Ecuadorean Andes / Elena P. Bastidas -- Women at the helm of irrigated agriculture in Mexico: the other side of male migration / Stephanie Buechler -- Toward a broader perspective / Vivienne Bennett, Sonia Dávila-Poblete, and Maria Nieves Rico
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-237) and index
Subject Water-supply -- Government policy -- Latin America
Water-supply -- Social aspects -- Latin America
Women in development -- Latin America
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Water-supply -- Government policy
Water-supply -- Social aspects
Women in development
Latin America
Form Electronic book
Author Bennett, Vivienne, 1953-
Dávila-Poblete, Sonia.
Rico, Nieves.
ISBN 9780822972655
0822972654