Diverting the Flow
Title | Diverting the Flow PDF eBook |
Author | Margreet Zwarteveen |
Publisher | Zubaan |
Pages | 412 |
Release | 2014-03-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9383074159 |
Across the South Asian region, water determines livelihoods and in some cases even survival. However, water also creates exclusions. Access to water, and its social organisation, are intimately tied up with power relations. This book provides an overview of gender, equity and water issues relevant to South Asia. The essays empirically illustrate and theoretically argue how gender intersects with other axes of social difference such as class, caste, ethnicity, age and religion to shape water access, use and management practices. Divided into six thematic sections, each of which starts with an introduction of relevant concepts, debates and theories, the book looks at laws and rights; policies; technologies and intervention strategies. In all, the book clearly shows how understanding and changing the use, distribution and management of water is conditional upon understanding and accommodating gender relations. Published by Zubaan.
Water Security Across the Gender Divide
Title | Water Security Across the Gender Divide PDF eBook |
Author | Christiane Fröhlich |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2017-10-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3319640461 |
This book examines water security as a prime example of how the economic, socio-cultural and political-normative systems that regulate access to water reflect the evolving and gendered power relations between different societal groups. Access to water is characterized by inequalities: it depends not only on natural water availability, but also on the respective socio-political context. It is regulated by gender-differentiated roles and responsibilities towards the resource, which are strongly influenced by, among others, tradition, religion, customary law, geographical availability, as well as the historical and socio-political context. While gender has been recognized as a key intervening variable in achieving equitable water access, most studies fail to acknowledge the deep interrelations between social structures and patterns of water use. Proof of these shortcomings is the enduring lack of data on water accessibility, availability and utilization that sufficiently acknowledges the relational nature of gender and other categories of power and difference, like class and socioeconomic status, as well as their comprehensive analysis. This book addresses this major research gap.
Walking for Water
Title | Walking for Water PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Hughes |
Publisher | Kids Can Press Ltd |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2021-06-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1525307983 |
A young boy finds a way to help his sister go to school. Victor and his twin sister, Linesi, are close. Only, now that they are eight years old, she is no longer able to go to school with him. Linesi, like the other older girls in their community, must walk to the river to get water five times a day to help their mother farm. But Victor is learning about equality in school. He’s beginning to realize how boys and girls are not treated equally. And that’s not fair to his sister. So Victor comes up with a plan to help. Can one boy make a difference in an unequal world? It turns out, he can!
Gender, Water and Development
Title | Gender, Water and Development PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Coles |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2020-05-12 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1000189856 |
There is a renewed global commitment to 'water for all'. Yet even though women are usually responsible for domestic water provision, their needs and voices continue to be marginalized in the development process. A close analysis of current policy and practice shows that organizations providing improved water supplies to poor communities typically neglect the gendered nature of access to and control over water resources. The resulting gender bias causes inefficiencies and injustices in water provision and reduces the effectiveness of well-meant efforts. This book shows how, in different environmental, historical and cultural contexts, gender has been an important element in water provision. It draws on a wide range of first-hand material, analyzed from different disciplinary perspectives. Case studies include analysis of the role of water in inhibiting the fight against HIV/AIDS in southern Africa, and the challenges of taking gender into account in large water projects in India and Nepal.
Gender and Water Sanitation and Hygiene
Title | Gender and Water Sanitation and Hygiene PDF eBook |
Author | Caroline Sweetman |
Publisher | Working in Gender & Developmen |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9781788530835 |
At birth and death, and each day in between, individual human need for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) is near constant. While WASH is intensely personal, it is also about power, inequality, development and social justice. Inadequate WASH provision both results from and causes continuing poverty, and serves to reinforce gender and other inequalities. Women and girls experience WASH needs differently from men, both as individuals, and as societies' carers. Gender and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene highlights the importance of WASH provision for women and girls in their own right, as carers for families and communities, and as key to women's empowerment.
Gender and Sustainability
Title | Gender and Sustainability PDF eBook |
Author | Mar’a Luz Cruz-Torres |
Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2012-11-08 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0816530017 |
Gender and Sustainability deals with women's struggles to contend with global forces—environmental change, economic development, discrimination and stereotyping about the roles of women, and diminishing access to natural resources—not in the abstract but in everyday life. It addresses the lived complexities of the relationship between gender and sustainability.
Taking Stock of Progress Towards Gender Equality in the Water Domain
Title | Taking Stock of Progress Towards Gender Equality in the Water Domain PDF eBook |
Author | UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme |
Publisher | UNESCO Publishing |
Pages | 35 |
Release | 2021-06-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9231004530 |