Carolyn E Sachs

Gendered Fields

Rural Women, Agriculture, And Environment

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Applying a feminist and environmentalist approach to her investigation of how the changing global economy affects rural women, Carolyn Sachs focuses on land ownership and use, cropping systems, and women's work with animals in highly industrialized as well as developing countries

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780813325200
• ISBN-10: 081332520X
• Artikelnr.: 22455962

Autorenporträt

Carolyn E. Sachs is associate professor of rural sociology and women's studies at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Invisible Farmers: Women in Agricultural Production (Westview).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Situating Rural Women in Theory and Practice 2. Feminist Theory and
Rural Women 3. Rural Women and Nature 4. Rural Women's Connections to the
Land 5. Women's Work with Plants 6. Women's Work with Animals 7. Women on
Family Farms: Reappraisal 8. Global Restructuring, Local Outcomes, and the
Reshaping of Rural Women's Work 9. Conclusion