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Taking Stands : Gender and the Sustainability of Rural Communities.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 2003Copyright date: ©2003Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (296 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780774850568
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Taking StandsDDC classification:
  • 333.7508209711
LOC classification:
  • HQ1240.5.C2 -- R44 2003eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Taking Stands -- 1 Introduction: Seeing the Trees among Women in Forestry Communities -- 2 Transition and Social Marginalization of Forestry Communities -- 3 Policy and Structural Change in Rural British Columbia -- 4 Women and Woods Work: The Gender of Forestry Jobs -- 5 Women's Lives, Husbands' Wives: "Managing" Forestry Communities -- 6 Communities Confront Outsiders -- 7 Fitting In: Making a Place for Gender in Environmental and Land Use Planning -- 8 Social Sustainability and the Renewal of Research Agendas -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Describing and Re Xecting on Research Methods -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary: Goes beyond the dichotomies of "pro" and "anti" environmentalism to tell the stories of the women who seek to maintain resource use in rural places.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Taking Stands -- 1 Introduction: Seeing the Trees among Women in Forestry Communities -- 2 Transition and Social Marginalization of Forestry Communities -- 3 Policy and Structural Change in Rural British Columbia -- 4 Women and Woods Work: The Gender of Forestry Jobs -- 5 Women's Lives, Husbands' Wives: "Managing" Forestry Communities -- 6 Communities Confront Outsiders -- 7 Fitting In: Making a Place for Gender in Environmental and Land Use Planning -- 8 Social Sustainability and the Renewal of Research Agendas -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Describing and Re Xecting on Research Methods -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Goes beyond the dichotomies of "pro" and "anti" environmentalism to tell the stories of the women who seek to maintain resource use in rural places.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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