Women, the Environment and Sustainable Development: Towards a Theoretical Synthesis

by Ewa Charkiewicz, Saskia E. Wieringa, Sabine Hausler

A study commissioned by the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, reporting on how women fit into the debates on the relationship between development and environmental protection in the third world. The issues addressed include the simultaneous rise of the global environmental crisis and the women's movement, power discourse, feminist critiques of science, women and nature, alternative development, and radical responses to the crisis. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

220 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1993

Reviews

[Brandon Fryman · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great review/history about the different waves of feminism and how women from non-western countries view feminism and how different the view points are. They discuss how development/modernity is a white male scientific model of how people should evolve and how horrible of a model that is for non-imperialistic countries. They discuss how women are always looked upon to help the environment because they are so close to nature because they give birth and because they usually do the house work. So a critique of this is "lets give more work to women and not have men do anything else." They talk about how most of the problems stem from the West and their over consumerist lifestyles really destroy the earth and keep other poor. They talk about eco-feminism, social and deep ecology which makes me want to convert. They also get into economics, world systems theory and tie all these together as what not to do. The only thing they say to do, they also critique, giving women more work. Love the book, its a great read and made me understand more about the feminist perspective.