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Title Feminist perspectives on sustainable development / edited by Wendy Harcourt
Published London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Zed Books, in association with Society for International Development, Rome, [1994]
©1994

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Description xiv, 255 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Negotiating positions in the sustainable development debate : situating the feminist perspective / Wendy Harcourt -- Feminist orientalism and development / Fredeique Apffel-Marglin, Suzanne L. Simon -- Mining development in the Pacific : are we sustaining the unsustainable? / 'Atu Emberson-Bain -- The logic of economics vs. the dynamics of culture : daring to (re)invent the common future / Raff Carmen -- Beyond GNP / Hazel Henderson -- The south wind : towards new cosmologies / Corinne Kumar D'Souza -- Between terraforming and fortune-telling / Nina Lykke, Mette Bryld -- Sustainable development through women's groups : a cultural approach to sustainable development / Corinne Wacker -- Women and the politics of sustainable development / Sabine Hausler -- Interbeing and the Ì' habit : an experiment in environmental literacy / Julia Martin -- The politics of research on gender, environment and development / Willy Douma, Heleen van den Hombergh, Ange Wieberdink -- Feminism and political change : women's peace movements / Frances Connelly -- Biodiversity and gender issues : recognizing common ground / Janet N. Abramovitz
Women, poverty and population : issues for the concerned environmentalist / Gita Sen -- Finiteness, infinity and responsibility : the population-environment debate / Franck Amalric -- Consumption and fertility / Helga Moss
Summary This collection captures the vitality and urgency of feminists' responses to the environment and development debate. The authors - researchers, activists and policy-makers from North and South - offer new ways of challenging the present dominating knowledge-systems and development institutions, and discuss the difficulties women face on the margins of the development process. Contributions on resource management, power, knowledge production, culture, development institutions and politics, health and economics, show how gender relations are not simply a footnote to our understanding of history and societies, but must be central to the development discourse. In so doing, they suggest that diversity itself is necessary to the creation of new paradigms of development that are built upon gender equity, secure livelihoods, ecological sustainability and political participation
Analysis Economic conditions Related to Environment
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
SUBJECT Women in development. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n42026681
Subject Feminist theory.
Sustainable development.
Women in development.
Author Harcourt, Wendy, 1959-
Society for International Development.
LC no. 94010247
ISBN 1856492435 (cloth)
1856492443 (paper)