Women, urbanization and sustainability : practices of survival, adaptation and resistance / Anita Lacey, editor.
Lacey, Anita, 1974- editor.
2017
HQ1155 .W675 2017eb
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Title Women, urbanization and sustainability : practices of survival, adaptation and resistance / Anita Lacey, editor.
ISBN 9781349951826 (electronic book)
134995182X (electronic book)
9781349951819
1349951811
Published [London] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Copyright ©2017
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xvii, 298 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Call Number HQ1155 .W675 2017eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 320
Summary This work considers the city as a gendered space and examines women's experiences and engagement in both urbanization and sustainability. Such a focus offers distinctive insights into the question of what it means for a city to be sustainable, asking further how sustainability needs to work with gender and the gendered lives of cities' inhabitants. Vitally, it considers women's lives in cities and their work to forge more sustainable cities through a wide variety of means, including governmental, non-governmental and local grassroots and individual efforts towards sustainable urban life. The volume is transnational, offering case-studies from a wide range of city sites and sustainability efforts. It explores crucial questions such as the gendered nature and women's experiences of current urbanization; the gendered nature of urban sustainability thinking and programmes; and local alternatives and resistances to dominant modes of addressing urbanization challenges.
Note This work considers the city as a gendered space and examines women's experiences and engagement in both urbanization and sustainability. Such a focus offers distinctive insights into the question of what it means for a city to be sustainable, asking further how sustainability needs to work with gender and the gendered lives of cities' inhabitants. Vitally, it considers women's lives in cities and their work to forge more sustainable cities through a wide variety of means, including governmental, non-governmental and local grassroots and individual efforts towards sustainable urban life. The volume is transnational, offering case-studies from a wide range of city sites and sustainability efforts. It explores crucial questions such as the gendered nature and women's experiences of current urbanization; the gendered nature of urban sustainability thinking and programmes; and local alternatives and resistances to dominant modes of addressing urbanization challenges.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-285) and index.
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Added Author Lacey, Anita, 1974- editor.
Series Gender, development and social change.
Available in Other Form Women, urbanization and sustainability.
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