Taking Stands : Gender and the Sustainability of Rural Communities.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (296 pages)
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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Women in rural development -- British Columbia. Women in forestry -- British Columbia. Sustainable forestry -- British Columbia. Forestry and community -- British Columbia. Forests and forestry -- Social aspects -- British Columbia.