Gender and Environment (Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts)

Accessible and lively, this is the first introductory level text to introduce the key issues in the rapidly growing area of gender and environment. This text provides an analysis of how gender relations affect the natural environment and of 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.