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Women, gender and disaster: Global issues and initiatives/ edited by Elaine Pitt Enarson and P G Dhar Chakrabarti

By: Pitt Enarson, ElaineContributor(s): Chakrabarti, P G Dhar edMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: SAGE, 2009ISBN: 9789352801930Subject(s): Social ScienceOnline resources: Click here to access online

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Tables, Figures and Boxes; Foreword; Preface; Part One: Understanding Gender Relations in Disaster; 1 -- Sex, Gender and Gender Relations in Disasters; 2 -- A Gender Perspective on Disaster Risk Reduction; 3 -- Let's Share the Stage: Involving Men in Gender Equality and Disaster Risk Reduction; 4 -- Organising for Risk Reduction: The Honolulu Call to Action; Part Two: Gendered Challenges and Responses in Disasters; 5 -- Reducing Disaster Risk through Community Resilience in the Himalayas 6 -- Gender Perspectives on Disaster Reconstruction in Nicaragua: Reconstructing Roles and Relations?7 -- Environmental Management and Disaster Mitigation: Middle Eastern Gender Perspective; 8 -- 'Everything Became a Struggle, Absolute Struggle': Post-flood Increases in Domestic Violence in New Zealand; 9 -- Parenting in the Wake of Disaster: Mothers and Fathers Respond to Hurricane Katrina; 10 -- Women in the Great Hanshin Earthquake; 11 -- Victims of Earthquake and Patriarchy: The 2005 Pakistan Earthquake; 12 -- 'A Part of Me Had Left': Learning from Women Farmers in Canada about Disaster Stress 13 -- Supporting Women and Men on the Front Lines of Biological DisasterPart Three: Women's Organised Initiatives; 14 -- 'We Can Make Things Better for Each Other': Women and Girls Organise to Reduce Disasters in Central America; 15 -- Women's Participation in Disaster Relief and Recovery; 16 -- Work-focused Responses to Disasters: India's Self Employed Women's Association; 17 -- A Climate for Change: Humanitarian Disaster and the Movement for the Commons in Kenya; 18 -- Sri Lankan Women's Organisations Responding to Post-tsunami Violence; 19 -- 'A We Run Tings': Women Rebuilding Montserrat 20 -- Women Responding to Drought in BrazilPart Four: Gender-sensitive Disaster Risk Reduction; 21 -- Balancing Gender Vulnerabilities and Capacities in the Framework of Comprehensive Disaster Risk Management: The Case of Mexico; 22 -- Towards Gender Equality in Climate Change Policy: Challenges and Perspectives for the Future; 23 -- Engendering Tsunami Recovery in Sri Lanka: The Role of UNIFEM and its Partners; 24 -- Gendering Disaster Risk Reduction: 57 Steps from Words to Action; 25 -- Toolkit for Mainstreaming Gender in Emergency Response; About the Editors and Contributors; Index

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Cover; Contents; List of Tables, Figures and Boxes; Foreword; Preface; Part One: Understanding Gender Relations in Disaster; 1 --
Sex, Gender and Gender Relations in Disasters; 2 --
A Gender Perspective on Disaster Risk Reduction; 3 --
Let's Share the Stage: Involving Men in Gender Equality and Disaster Risk Reduction; 4 --
Organising for Risk Reduction: The Honolulu Call to Action; Part Two: Gendered Challenges and Responses in Disasters; 5 --
Reducing Disaster Risk through Community Resilience in the Himalayas 6 --
Gender Perspectives on Disaster Reconstruction in Nicaragua: Reconstructing Roles and Relations?7 --
Environmental Management and Disaster Mitigation: Middle Eastern Gender Perspective; 8 --
'Everything Became a Struggle, Absolute Struggle': Post-flood Increases in Domestic Violence in New Zealand; 9 --
Parenting in the Wake of Disaster: Mothers and Fathers Respond to Hurricane Katrina; 10 --
Women in the Great Hanshin Earthquake; 11 --
Victims of Earthquake and Patriarchy: The 2005 Pakistan Earthquake; 12 --
'A Part of Me Had Left': Learning from Women Farmers in Canada about Disaster Stress 13 --
Supporting Women and Men on the Front Lines of Biological DisasterPart Three: Women's Organised Initiatives; 14 --
'We Can Make Things Better for Each Other': Women and Girls Organise to Reduce Disasters in Central America; 15 --
Women's Participation in Disaster Relief and Recovery; 16 --
Work-focused Responses to Disasters: India's Self Employed Women's Association; 17 --
A Climate for Change: Humanitarian Disaster and the Movement for the Commons in Kenya; 18 --
Sri Lankan Women's Organisations Responding to Post-tsunami Violence; 19 --
'A We Run Tings': Women Rebuilding Montserrat 20 --
Women Responding to Drought in BrazilPart Four: Gender-sensitive Disaster Risk Reduction; 21 --
Balancing Gender Vulnerabilities and Capacities in the Framework of Comprehensive Disaster Risk Management: The Case of Mexico; 22 --
Towards Gender Equality in Climate Change Policy: Challenges and Perspectives for the Future; 23 --
Engendering Tsunami Recovery in Sri Lanka: The Role of UNIFEM and its Partners; 24 --
Gendering Disaster Risk Reduction: 57 Steps from Words to Action; 25 --
Toolkit for Mainstreaming Gender in Emergency Response; About the Editors and Contributors; Index

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