Accessible and lively this is the first introductory level text to introducethe key issues in the rapidly growing area of gender and environment. This textprovi... » 

Accessible and lively this is the first introductory level text to introducethe key issues in the rapidly growing area of gender and environment. This textprovides an analysis of how gender relations affect the natural environment andof how environmental issues have a differential impact on women and men.Using case studies from the developed and developing worlds this text covers gendered roles in the family community and international connections conception giving birth western practices the body and the self. «