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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (x, 245 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781588269560
  • 1588269566
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Women confronting natural disaster.DDC classification:
  • 363.34082 23
LOC classification:
  • HV553 .E52 2012eb
NLM classification:
  • 2012 C-064
  • WA 295
Online resources:
Contents:
Women and disasters -- Representations of women in disasters -- How gender changes disaster studies -- Measuring vulnerability and capacity -- Health and well-being -- Violence against women -- Intimacy and family life -- Houses and homes -- Work and workplaces -- Grassroots groups and recovery -- Building disaster resilience -- Fighting for the future.
Summary: 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. -- Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Women and disasters -- Representations of women in disasters -- How gender changes disaster studies -- Measuring vulnerability and capacity -- Health and well-being -- Violence against women -- Intimacy and family life -- Houses and homes -- Work and workplaces -- Grassroots groups and recovery -- Building disaster resilience -- Fighting for the future.

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. -- Publisher description.

Print version record.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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