Women confronting natural disaster : from vulnerability to resilience / / Elaine Enarson

• Autore: Enarson Elaine Pitt <1949->
• Pubblicazione: Boulder, Colorado : , : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , 2012; ©2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (255 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.34082
• Soggetto topico: Disasters - Social aspects; Disaster relief - Social aspects; Women - Social conditions; Women - Psychology
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Book Title""; ""Table of Contents""; ""List of Tables and Figures""; ""Tables""; ""1.1 Challenges of Womenâ€?s Everyday Lives: Selected Indicators""; ""3.1 Evaluating Feminist Theories Relevant to Disaster Risk Reduction""; ""10.1 How Womenâ€?s Collective Disaster Work Varies""; ""10.2 Research Questions About Womenâ€?s Work to Reduce Disaster Risk""; ""Figures""; ""3.1 Feminist Frameworks for Understanding Hazards and Disasters""; ""4.1 Cautionary Notes on Selected Vulnerability Indicators""; ""4.2 Illustrative Sex-Specific Census Data by Census Tract"" ; ""4.3 From Numbers to Relationships: Anticipating Needs and Capacities""""11.1 Potential Risk-Reducing Partnerships""; ""Preface""; ""1-Women and Disasters in the United States""; ""2-Representations of Women in Disasters""; ""Making Sense of Disaster Through Popular Culture""; ""Gender in the Popular Culture of Disaster""; ""Retelling the Story: Womenâ€?s Popular Culture of Disaster""; ""Conclusion""; ""3-How Gender Changes Disaster Studies""; ""New (and Old) Thinking About Gender and Disaster""; ""Disaster Sociology and the Sociology of Gender"" ; ""Putting Feminist Theories to Use in Disaster Work""""Conclusion""; ""4-Measuring Vulnerability and Capacity""; ""A Social Vulnerability Approach to Disasters""; ""Gendered Disaster Vulnerability""; ""Conclusion""; ""5-Health and Well-Being""; ""Gender Patterns in Disaster Survival""; ""Close Up: American Men at Risk in Extreme Heat""; ""Sexuality and Reproduction""; ""Maternal and Fetal Health""; ""Understanding Womenâ€?s Physical and Mental Health in Disasters""; ""Conclusion""; ""6-Violence Against Women""; ""Case Study Data: Patterns and Gaps"" ; ""But Why? Real and Imagined Explanations""""The Amplification of Vulnerability""; ""Conclusion""; ""7-Intimacy and Family Life""; ""Divisions and Strains""; ""Womenâ€?s Domestic Labor and Care Work""; ""Conclusion""; ""8-Houses and Homes""; ""Womenâ€?s Housing Vulnerability""; ""Women in the Lead: Risk Communication and Preparedness""; ""Gender Relations in Evacuation""; ""Shelter in the Storm? Emergency Shelters, Tent Cities, and Trailer Camps""; ""The Road Home? Roadblocks for Women""; ""Conclusion""; ""9-Work and Workplaces""; ""The Economic Costs of Disasters to Women"" ; ""Barriers to Womenâ€?s Recovery""""Womenâ€?s Backstage Disaster Work and Occupational Roles""; ""Womenâ€?s Care Work in Disasters: Occupational Work Offstage""; ""Conclusion""; ""10-Grassroots Groups and Recovery""; ""Womenâ€?s Leadership in Voluntary Relief and Recovery Work""; ""Women for Women: Collective Organizing and Leadership""; ""Emergent Womenâ€?s Organizations After Disasters""; ""Observations and Questions""; ""Conclusion""; ""11-Building Disaster Resilience""; ""Mainstreaming Gender in Disaster Work""; ""Mainstreaming: Intent and Implementation"" ; ""The Empowerment Thesis: Challenging Male Power in Disasters""
• Sommario/riassunto: Natural disasters push ordinary gender disparities to the extreme—leaving women not only to deal with a catastrophe's aftermath, but also at risk for greater levels of domestic violence, displacement, and other threats to their security and well-being. Elaine Enarson presents a comprehensive assessment, encompassing both theory and practice, of how gender shapes disaster vulnerability and resilience.
• Titolo autorizzato: Women confronting natural disaster
• ISBN: 1-58826-956-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786396003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II