Women Confronting Natural Disaster : From Vulnerability to Resilience.

Intro -- Book Title -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Tables -- 1.1 Challenges of Women's Everyday Lives: Selected Indicators -- 3.1 Evaluating Feminist Theories Relevant to Disaster Risk Reduction -- 10.1 How Women's Collective Disaster Work Varies -- 10.2 Research Questions About Women's Work to Reduce Disaster Risk -- Figures -- 3.1 Feminist Frameworks for Understanding Hazards and Disasters -- 4.1 Cautionary Notes on Selected Vulnerability Indicators -- 4.2 Illustrative Sex-Specific Census Data by Census Tract -- 4.3 From Numbers to Relationships: Anticipating Needs and Capacities -- 11.1 Potential Risk-Reducing Partnerships -- Preface -- 1-Women and Disasters in the United States -- 2-Representations of Women in Disasters -- Making Sense of Disaster Through Popular Culture -- Gender in the Popular Culture of Disaster -- Retelling the Story: Women's Popular Culture of Disaster -- Conclusion -- 3-How Gender Changes Disaster Studies -- New (and Old) Thinking About Gender and Disaster -- Disaster Sociology and the Sociology of Gender -- Putting Feminist Theories to Use in Disaster Work -- Conclusion -- 4-Measuring Vulnerability and Capacity -- A Social Vulnerability Approach to Disasters -- Gendered Disaster Vulnerability -- Conclusion -- 5-Health and Well-Being -- Gender Patterns in Disaster Survival -- Close Up: American Men at Risk in Extreme Heat -- Sexuality and Reproduction -- Maternal and Fetal Health -- Understanding Women's Physical and Mental Health in Disasters -- Conclusion -- 6-Violence Against Women -- Case Study Data: Patterns and Gaps -- But Why? Real and Imagined Explanations -- The Amplification of Vulnerability -- Conclusion -- 7-Intimacy and Family Life -- Divisions and Strains -- Women's Domestic Labor and Care Work -- Conclusion -- 8-Houses and Homes -- Women's Housing Vulnerability.

Women in the Lead: Risk Communication and Preparedness -- Gender Relations in Evacuation -- Shelter in the Storm? Emergency Shelters, Tent Cities, and Trailer Camps -- The Road Home? Roadblocks for Women -- Conclusion -- 9-Work and Workplaces -- The Economic Costs of Disasters to Women -- Barriers to Women's Recovery -- Women's Backstage Disaster Work and Occupational Roles -- Women's Care Work in Disasters: Occupational Work Offstage -- Conclusion -- 10-Grassroots Groups and Recovery -- Women's Leadership in Voluntary Relief and Recovery Work -- Women for Women: Collective Organizing and Leadership -- Emergent Women's Organizations After Disasters -- Observations and Questions -- Conclusion -- 11-Building Disaster Resilience -- Mainstreaming Gender in Disaster Work -- Mainstreaming: Intent and Implementation -- The Empowerment Thesis: Challenging Male Power in Disasters -- Gender and the Hyogo Framework for Action: Reducing the Risk of Disaster -- From Vulnerability to Resilience? -- The Awakening? From Response to Prevention in Women's Movements -- Political Will for Change: Cautionary Notes -- Three Lines of Action -- Conclusion -- 12-Fighting for the Future -- Appendix: A Guide to Online Resources -- References -- Index -- About the Book.

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