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 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.
Bevat de volgende bijdragen: Women and resettlement / door Dolores Koenig: Women's studies and developing countries: focus on Asia / door Mariam K. Chamberlain en Florence Howe: Research frontiers at the nexus of gender, environment, and development: linking household, community, and ecosystem / door Barbara P. Thomas-Slayter en Dianne E. Rocheleau: Women, revolution, and national identity in the Middle East / door Valentine M. Moghadam: Building socialism with chinese characteristics / door Norma Diamond: The 'Woman Question' and national identity: Societ and Post-Soviet Russia / door Linda Racioppi en Katherine O'Sullivan See: South Africa: constructing a nation, restructuring gender / door Gay W. Seidman.