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



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Autore: Townsend Janet G. <1944, > Visualizza persona
Titolo: Women's voices from the rainforest / / Janet Gabriel Townsend ; in collaboration with Ursula Arrevillaga. [et al.] Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1995
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (220 p.)
Disciplina: 305.42/098
793.8
Soggetto topico: Women in development - South America
Women in development - Tropics
Women and the environment - South America
Women and the environment - Tropics
Rain forests - South America
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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
Titolo autorizzato: Women's voices from the rainforest  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-134-84634-7
1-280-17548-6
0-203-97574-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910450987403321
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Serie: International studies of women and place.