NEWS
28 June 2005
NEW PUBLICATIONS: GENDER, WATER AND DEVELOPMENT
Coles, A. and Wallace, T. (2005). Gender, water and development. Oxford, UK, Berg Publishers. - 256 p. - Includes bibliography and index. - ISBN 1845201256 (Pb). - ISBN 1845201248 (Hb)
This book shows how gender has been an important element in water provision. It draws on a wide range of first-hand material, analyzed from different disciplinary perspectives. The book includes chapters on Cosmology, gender and material culture in the appropriation of water resources; The role of water in an unequal social order in India; Women and the social production of water in anglophone Cameroon; Water supply, social relations, ethnicity and livelihoods in central Sudan; Gender mainstreaming in the water sector in Nepal; The challenge to internations ngos of incorporating gender; Misunderstanding gender in water-addressing or reproducing exclusion; Enabling women to participate in African smallholder irrigation development and design; Problems associated with the home based care of AIDS patients on a rural area of Northern Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa; Gender and poverty approach in practice: lessons learned in Nepal; and Gender, equity and water.
Price: Hardback GBP 50 (EUR 75.20) Paperback GBP 16,99 (EUR 25.55)
Source: IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre
