Women and the Environment

Bibliography compiled by Jody Ranck
December, 1996

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_____________ (forthcoming). "Gender Perspectives on Environmental Action: Issues of Equity, Agency and Participation" in J. Scott and C. Kaplan eds. Transitions, Environments and Translations, Routledge, London.

_____________ (1994). A Field of One's Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

_____________ (1992). "The Gender and Environment Debate: Lessons from India." Feminist Studies, 18(1):119-58.

____________ (1990). "Social Security and the Family: Coping with Seasonality and Calamity in Rural India." Journal of Peasant Studies, 17(3):341-412

____________ (1991). "Engendering the Environment Debate: Lessons from the sub-continent." Agenda 21: an easy reference to the specific recommendations on women. New York, N.Y. (304 E. 45th St., 6th Floor, New York 10017) : United Nations Development Fund for Women, [199-?].

Altman, Irwin and Arza Churchman ed (1994). Women and the environment. New York : Plenum Press.

Antrobus, Peggy; Peacocke, Nan (1992). "Who is really speaking in the environment debate?" UNESCO Courier (March, 1992):39 (4 pages). Anwar, Seemin (1976). The attitudes, environment and activities of rural women : a case study of Jhok Sayal. Islamabad : Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, 1976.

Ashford, Lori S. (1995). "The changing policy environment." (discussion on the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development) (New Perspectives on Population: Lessons from Cairo) Population Bulletin v50, n1 (March, 1995):7 (6 pages).

Ashford, Lori S (1995). "Population and sustainable development." (New Perspectives on Population: Lessons from Cairo) Population Bulletin v50, n1 (March, 1995):29 (4 pages).

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 Bain, Jennifer H. (1993). "Mexican rural women's knowledge of the environment." Mexican Studies-Estudios Mexicanos v9, n2 (Summer, 1993):259 (16 pages).

Batliwala, S. (1983). "Women and Cooking Energy." Economic and Political Weekly, 18(52-53):2227-30.

Bell, Judith Kjellberg (1992). "Women, environment and urbanization in a third world context: a guide to the literature." (from 'Environment and Urbanization') (Bibliography) Women & Environments v13, n2 (Spring, 1992):12 (6 pages).

Blaikie, P. (1985). The Political Economy of Soil Erosion in Developing Countries. Longman, NY.

Braidotti, Rosi et al (1994). Women, the environment and sustainable development: towards a theoretical synthesis. London; Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Zed Books in association with INSTRAW.

Bulos, Marjorie ed (1989). Making a place for women : a resource handbook on women and the built environment [London]: Women's Design Service: South Bank Polytechnic.

C

 Carney, J. and Watts, M. (1990). "Manufacturing Dissent: Work, Gender and the Politics of Meaning in a Peasant Society." Africa, 60(2):207-41.

Cecelski, Elizabeth W. (1995). "From Rio to Beijing: engendering the energy debate." (Coal in Europe: Implications of Dismantled Subsidies) Energy Policy v23, n6 (June, 1995):561

"A view from the south." (views of poor women from developing world regarding environmental issues) Connexions, n41 (Wntr, 1993):8 (3 pages).

Corbett, Anne (1993). "Africa's debt is our debt too." (Federation of African Women Educationists seek aid for literacy training) Times Educational Supplement, n4035 (Oct 29, 1993):13.

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 Dankelman, Irene (1988). Women and environment in the Third World : alliance for the future. London : Earthscan Pub. in association with IUCN, 1988.

Di Chiro, Giovanna (1995). Local actions, global visions : women transforming science, environment, and health in the U.S. and India. c1995, dissertation.

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 Esserman, Lauren (1992). "Earth Summit": women break into the process. (International News) Ms. Magazine v3, n2 (Sept-Oct, 1992):14.

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 Gardner, Sarah Sturges (1995). "Major themes in the study of grassroots environmentalism in developing countries." Journal of Third World Studies v12, n2 (Fall, 1995):200 (45 pages).

Green, Cathy (1994). Poverty, population and environment: does synergism work for women? Brighton, Eng: IDS, University of Sussex, c1994.

Greed, Clara (1994). Women and planning: creating gendered realities. London; New York : Routledge, 1994.

Gulhati, Ravi (1995). Strengthening voluntary action in India: health-family planning, the environment, and women's development. Delhi : Konark Publishers, c1995.

Guha, R. (1989). The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya. Oxford University Press, New Delhi.

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 Halas, Susan M. (1992). "The park." (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, site of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, 1992) Women & Environments v13, n3-4 (Wntr-Spring, 1993):52 (2 pages).

Hair, Jay D. (1992). "Women's voice must be heard at summit." (United Nations Conference on Environment and Development) (The National Wildlife View) International Wildlife v22, n3 (May-June, 1992):26.

Harcourt, W. (1994). Feminist Perspectives on Sustainable Development. Zed Books, London.

Harding, Sondra (1991). Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? Thinking from Women's Lives. Cornell University Press, Ithaca.

Hertsgaard, Mark (1993). "Still ticking ... the Vatican's dark marriage to Islam has kept birth control off the international agenda." (Sex & Politics -United Nations Conference on Environment and Development) (Cover Story) Mother Jones v18, n2 (March-April, 1993):20 (10 pages).

Ho, Samuel P.S (1995). "Rural non-agricultural development in post-reform China: growth, development patterns, and issues." Pacific Affairs v68, n3 (Fall, 1995):360 (32 pages).

Holloway, Marguerite (1992). "Population pressure: the road from Rio is paved with factions." (United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Scientific American v267, n3 (Sept, 1992):32 (3 pages).

I

 Ismail, Ellen T. (1982). Social environment and daily routine of Sudanese women : a case study of urban middle class housewives. Berlin : Reimer, 1982.

J

 Jackson, Cecile (1993). "Doing what comes naturally? Women and environment in development." World Development v21, n12 (Dec, 1993):1947 (17 pages).

______________ (1993). "Environmentalisms and Gender Interests in the Third World." Development and Change, 24:649-77.

Jansen,-Sue-Curry (1990). "Is Science a Man? New Feminist Epistemologies and Reconstructions of Knowledge." Theory-and-Society; 1990, 19, 2, Apr, 235-246.

Jayasena, Asoka et al (1994). Veddah women : impact of t[r]anslocation from a forest environment to agricultural settlements. Colombo : Centre for Women's Research, 1994.

Jiggins, Janice (1994). Changing the boundaries : women-centered perspectives on population and the environment. Washington : Island Press, c1994.

Johnson,-Kathleen-R.; Parsons,-Howard-L. (1989). "Towards a Happy Union of Marxism and Ecology: A Socialist-Feminist Perspective." Research-and-Society; 1989, 2, 54-79.

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 Kelly, Petra.(1994). "Women and power." (environmental concerns of women). Earth Island Journal v9, n1 (Wntr, 1994):38 (2 pages).

King,-Ynestra (1988). "The Ecology of Feminism and the Feminism of Ecology." Communities; 1988, 75, summer, 32-38.

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 Lahar,-Stephanie (1991). "Ecofeminist Theory and Grassroots Politics." Hypatia; 1991, 6, 1, spring, 28-45.

Lawson, Trevor (1994). "Plotting the landscape." (includes related articles) Geographical Magazine v66, n11 (Nov, 1994):42 (3 pages).

Lele, Jayant and Wisdom Tettey (1996). Asia--who pays for growth?: women, environment, and popular movements. Aldershot, England; Brookfield, Vt., USA: Dartmouth.

Little, Jo et al. ed. (1988). Women in cities: gender and the urban environment. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Education,1988.

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 Marglin, Frederique Apffel; Mishra, Purna Chandra (1992). "Women's blood: challenging the discourse of development." (Special Issue on Feminism, Nature and Development). Ecologist v22, n1 (Jan-Feb, 1992):22 (11 pages).

"Making space : women and the man-made environment." Matrix. London : Pluto Press, 1984 (1985 printing).

Mehta, Manjari (1996). " Our Lives Are No Different from that of our Buffaloes: Agricultural Change and gendered spaces in a central Himalayan Valley." Feminist Political Ecology, Rocheleau ed.

Mello, Fatima Vianna (1992). "Not on our backs." (Brazilian women's groups at the earth summit) (Latin America and the Caribbean: Women in Political Movement) Connexions, n39 (Spring, 1992):2.

Mellor, Mary (1992). "Eco-Feminism and Eco-Socialism: Dilemmas of Essentialism and Materialism." Capitalism, Nature, Socialism; 1992, 3, 2(10), June, 43-62.

Mellor, Mary (1989). "Turning Green: Whose Ecology?" Science as Culture; 1989, 6, 17-41. Merchant, Carolyn (1996). Earthcare: women and the environment. New York: Routledge, 1996.

Mies, Maria (1990). A Materialist Analysis of Eco-Feminism.International Sociological Association (ISA).

Mills, Patricia Jagentowicz (1991). "Feminism and Ecology: On the Domination of Nature." Hypatia; 1991, 6, 1, spring, 162-178.

Molyneux, Maxine; Steinberg, Deborah Lynn (1995). "Mies and Shiva's Ecofeminism: A New Testament?" Feminist Review; 1995, 49, spring, 86-107.

Ms. Magazine, (1992)."In defense of the Earth global testimony." (opinions of six female intellectuals on environmental issues in preparation for the Earth Summit in Brazil in 1992) Ms. Magazine v2, n6 (May-June, 1992):12 (2 pages).

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 Naripokkho/UNIFEM Workshop (1993 : Dhaka, Bangladesh) Agriculture and environment: peasant women's perspectives. Naripokkho/UNIFEM Workshop, 10-14 February 1993, Dhaka, Bangladesh. [Dhaka : Naripokkho, 1993]

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 OECD (1995). Women in the city : housing, services, and the urban environment. Paris : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ; Washington, D.C. : OECD Publications and Information Center [U.S. distributor], c1995.

Ogunleye, Bisi (1993). "Local initiative: key to women's voice in global decision making for a healthy environment in Africa." Women & Environments v13, n3-4 (Wntr-Spring, 1993):15 (3 pages).

Ozanne, Lucie K.; Humphrey, Craig R. (1994). "Gender and Environmentalism: Competing Ecofeminist Paradigms." American Sociological Association (ASA). 1994.

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 Paolisso, Michael and Sally W. Yudelman (1991). Women, poverty and the environment in Latin America. Washington, D.C.: InternationalCenter for Research on Women, c1991.

Pearson, Kim (1993). "Report on a project ... and a process." (looking at at non-governmental organizations, poverty and the environment) Women & Environments v13, n3-4 (Wntr-Spring, 1993):41 (2 pages).

Pena, Devon (1997). The Terror of the Machine. Technology, Work, Gender, & Ecology on the US-Mexico Border. University of Texas, Austin.

Plumwood,-Val (1986). "Ecofeminism: An Overview and Discussion of Positions and Arguments." Australasian Journal of Philosophy; 1986, 64, June, 120-138.

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 Rocheleau, Dianne (1995). "Gender and Biodiversity--A Feminist Political Ecology Perspective." Institute for Development Studies Bulletin, 26(1):9-16.

______________ (1995). "Maps, Numbers, Text and Context: Mixing Methods in Feminist Political Ecology." Professional Geographer, 47(4):458-66.

________________ (1992). "Gender, Ecology and the Science of Survival: Stories and Lessons from Kenya." Agriculture and Human Values, 8:156-165. Rocheleau, Dianne; Barbara Thomas Slayter; and Esther Wangari (1996). Feminist Political Ecology. Global Issues and Local Experiences. Routledge, NY.

Rodda, Annabel (1991). Women and the environment. London; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. Zed Books, 1991.

Rosenberg, Dorothy (1993). "The alternate treaty process." (women groups working at the Global Forum at the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development, 1992) Women & Environments v13, n3-4 (Wntr-Spring, 1993):48 (2 pages).

Rosser, Sue V. (1991). "Eco-Feminism: Lessons for Feminism from Ecology."Women's Studies International Forum; 1991, 14, 3, 143-151.

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 Saad, Samia Galal (1996). "Integrating gender and environment in NGO training: focus on natural resources in the Near East. (non-governmental organization) (Women and Natural Resources Management) Natural Resources Forum v20, n2 (May, 1996):135 (10 pages).

Sachs, Carolyn E (1996). Gendered fields: rural women, agriculture, and environment. Boulder: Westview Press.

Salleh, Ariel (1993). "Class, Race, and Gender Discourse in the Ecofeminism/Deep Ecology Debate." Environmental Ethics; 1993, 15, 3, fall, 225-244.

Sayne, Pamala L. (1992). "Patriarchy, women's roles and human settlements." ( United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, 1992) Women & Environments v13, n3-4 (Wntr-Spring, 1993):50.

Seager, J. (1993). Earth Follies: Coming to Feminist Terms with the Global Environmental Crisis. Routledge, NY.

Shah, MK and P. Shah (1995). Gender, Environment and Livelihood Security: an Alternative Viewpoint from India. IDS Bulletin, 26(1):75-82.

Shields, M. Dale; Cornelia Butler Flora; Barbara Thomas-Slayter; Gladys Buenavista (1996). "Developing and Dismantling Social Capital. Gender and Resource Management in the Philippines." in Rocheleau et al. Feminist Political Ecology, Routledge.

Simmons, Pam (1992). "Women must win their own battles." (women involvement in environmental issues) Earth Island Journal v7, n3 (Summer, 1992):33.

Sontheimer, Sally ed. (1991). Women and the environment: a reader: crisis and development in the Third World. New York: Monthly Review Press.

Soper, Kate (1992). "Eco-Feminism and Eco-Socialism: Dilemmas of Essentialism and Materialism." Capitalism, Nature, Socialism; 1992, 3, 3(11), Sept, 111-114.

Stamp, P. (1989). Technology, Gender and Power in Africa. International Development Research Center, Ottawa.

Steady, Filomina Chioma (1993). Women and children first : environment, poverty, and sustainable development. Rochester, Vt. : Schenkman Books, c1993.

Swarnkar, G. P., (1988). Women participation in rural environment. 1st ed. Allahabad, India : Chugh Publications, 1988.

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 Tanner, Susan (1992). Women and the Sustainable Development Commission. ( United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, 1992) Women & Environments v13, n3-4 (Wntr-Spring, 1993):51.

Townsend, J. (1995). Women's Voices from the Rainforest. Routledge, NY.

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 UNESCO (1992). "Raising our voices." (Bella Abzug on women and the environment) (includes related article on the World Women's Congress) UNESCO Courier (March, 1992):36 (2 pages).

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 Venkateswaran, Sandhya (1992). Living on the edge : women, environment, and development. New Delhi : Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 1992.

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 Warren, Karen J.(1987). "Feminism and Ecology: Making Connections." Environmental Ethics; 1987, 9, 1, spring, 3-20.

Weissman, Robert (1992). "The women's agenda." (Report from Rio) Multinational Monitor v13, n7-8 (July-August, 1992):30 (3 pages).

West, G. and Blumberg, L. (1990). Women and Social Protest. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

WIN (1992). Workshop: "women and the 'man-made' built environment." (World Women's Congress for a Healthy Planet) (Panel Discussion) WIN News v18, n1 (Wntr, 1992):21 (4 pages).

WIN (1992). "Engendering the debate on environment: women and ecologically sustainable development." (Women and Environment) WIN News v18, n2 (Spring, 1992):32.

WIN (1992). "Environmental program of household waste management." (Philippines) (Women and Environment) WIN News v18, n3 (Summer, 1992):23.

Women's Studies Quarterly (1996). "A global movement for democracy." (Bella Abzug, Co-chair, Women's Environment and Development Organization [WEDO], Fourth UN Conference on Women, Beijing 1995) (Transcript) Women's Studies Quarterly v24, n1-2 (Spring-Summer, 1996):117.

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 Zein-Elabdin, Eiman (1996). "Development, gender, and the environment: theoretical or contextual link? Toward an institutional analysis of gender." Journal of Economic Issues v30, n4 (Dec, 1996):929 (19 pages).

Zhou Wei-wen (1996). "Water resources and development of women in arid regions in northern China." (Women and Natural Resources Management) Natural Resources Forum v20, n2 (May, 1996):105 (5 pages).

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Zimbabwe Women's Resource Centre and Network (1993). Women and environment. Zimbabwe Women's Resource Centre and Network. Harare: Zimbabwe Women's Resource Centre and Network.

Zimbabwe Women Writers (1992). Gazing at the environment : a selection of writing by women on the environment. (compiled for Book Fair 1992). Harare: Zimbabwe Women Writers.

Zimmerman, Michael E. (1987). "Feminism, Deep Ecology, and Environmental Ethics." Environmental Ethics; 1987, 9, 1, spring, 21-44.

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