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The Rising Tide: a New Look at Water and Gender

The Rising Tide: A New Look at Water and Gender reviews a vast body of literature and offers a framework for visualizing water as an asset, a service, and a space. It shows how water is an arena where gender relations play out in ways that often mirror inequalities between the sexes. And it examines how norms and practices related to water often exacerbate ingrained gender and other hierarchies. Informal institutions, taboos, rituals, and norms all play a part in maintaining these hierarchies and can even reinforce gender inequality. (Published in 2014)

26 Mar 2020

3.4 MB

English

The Rising Tide: a New Look at Water and Gender.pdf