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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450987403321

Autore

Townsend Janet G. <1944, >

Titolo

Women's voices from the rainforest / / Janet Gabriel Townsend ; in collaboration with Ursula Arrevillaga. [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1995

ISBN

1-134-84634-7

1-280-17548-6

0-203-97574-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 p.)

Collana

International studies of women and place

Disciplina

305.42/098

793.8

Soggetti

Women in development - South America

Women in development - Tropics

Women and the environment - South America

Women and the environment - Tropics

Rain forests - South America

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1 INTRODUCTION: WHO IS AN EXPERT?; 2 WOMEN PIONEERS IN THE TROPICS; 3 IN THE COLOMBIAN RAINFORESTS; 4 WOMEN PIONEERS IN MEXICO OUR ANALYSIS; 5 MEXICAN WOMEN PIONEERS TELL THEIR STORIES; 6 OUTSIDERS' CONCLUSIONS; 7 RE-PRESENTING VOICES; 8 CARMELA'S LIFE STORY; 9 ELENA'S LIFE STORY; 10 CLARA'S LIFE STORY; 11 GUADALUPE'S LIFE STORY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Women's Voices from the Rainforest explores the position of the women whose families are tearing down the rainforest. These women of Central and Latin America have been largely invisible until now, but they are at last turning their voices into action.International development policy and its top-down culture must take much of the blame for environmental and social destruction of the rainforest.



Presenting the contrasting results of different methodologies, a comprehensive literature review, and the voices of the rainforest women themselves, told in life histories, the authors argu