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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786753403321

Titolo

Opposing currents : the politics of water and gender in Latin America / / edited by Vivienne Bennett, Sonia Dávila-Poblete, and María Nieves Rico

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2005

©2005

ISBN

0-8229-7265-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Collana

Pitt Latin American Series

Disciplina

33.91/0098

Soggetti

Water-supply - Government policy - Latin America

Water-supply - Social aspects - Latin America

Women in development - Latin America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The connection between gender and water management / Margreet Zwarteveen and Vivienne Bennett -- Latin American challenges to global water and gender policies / Sonia Dávila-Poblete and María Nieves Rico -- Gender dimensions of neoliberal water policy in Mexico and Bolivia: empowering or disempowering / Rhodante Ahlers -- Women in the "water war" in the Cochabamba valleys / Rocío Bustamente, Elizabeth Peredo, and María Esther Udaeta -- To make waves: water and privatization in Tucumán, Argentina / Norma Giarraca and Norma del Pozo -- Irrigation management, community participation, and equity in an Andean community / Juana Rosa Vera Delgado -- Water as a source of equity and empowerment in Costa Rica / Lorena Aguilar -- Women, equity, and household water management in the valley of Mexico / Michael C. Ennis-McMillan -- Women and water in the northern Ecuadorean Andes / Elena P. Bastidas -- Women at the helm of irrigated agriculture in Mexico: the other side of male migration / Stephanie Buechler -- Toward a broader perspective / Vivienne Bennett, Sonia Dávila-Poblete, and Maria Nieves Rico.