Gendered Fields: Rural Women, Agriculture, And Environment

by Sachs, Carolyn E.

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Title Statements

Full title :Gendered Fields : Rural Women, Agriculture, And Environment.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1996.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Taylor and Francis
Place of Publication:New York, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:1996.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (220 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780429962356, 0429962355
oclc:on1027178266
LC Classification:HQ1240.S28
Dewey Decimal:305.42091734

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Tables and Photographs; Acknowledgments; 1 Situating Rural Women in Theory and Practice; What Is Rural?; Theorizing About Rural Women; Women and the Environment; Patriarchal Relations in Agriculture; Global Restructuring; Women's Resistance Efforts; A Note on Perspectives, Methods, and Data; 2 Feminist Theory and Rural Women; Feminist Epistemologies: From Women's Standpointto Situated Knowledge; Difference-Race, Class, Ethnicity, Nationality, and Sexuality; Women's Resistance; 3 Rural Women and Nature.

Theorizing Women's Connection to NatureMother Nature: Symbolic Association BetweenWomen and the Land; Feminist Critiques of Science; Feminism and Animal Rights; Ecofeminism; Rethinking Ecofeminism; Women's Work with Nature; 4 Rural Women's Connections to the Land; Privatization and the Demise of Communal Land; Colonial and Postcolonial Land Policies inSub-Saharan Africa; Distribution of Land; Land Degradation; Summary on Women and Land; 5 Women's Work with Plants; Women's and Men's Crops; Gender Division of Tasks by Cropping Systems; From Three Sisters to Corn Monoculture.

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