Women and Climate Change

Examining Discourses from the Global North

Nicole Detraz

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MIT Press
12 April 2023

Political science & theory

How ideas of gender and climate change intersect with our path to a livable future.

How ideas of gender and climate change intersect with our path to a livable future.

When you think ""climate change,"" who comes to mind? Who's doing the science, the reporting, the protesting, the suffering? In Women and Climate Change, Nicole Detraz asks where women in the Global North figure in the picture, what that means, and why it matters. Her answers fill critical gaps in what we know about the politics of climate change and gender.

Representations of climate change, like perceptions of gender, can make a profound difference in understanding expectations and actions around social, cultural, and political issues. Interviewing women living in the Global North who work in the climate change sphere, Detraz examines the crucial links between notions of climate change and gender-in particular, how women are portrayed in climate change debates. Where is their presence or absence recognized? What tasks are they expected to perform? What factors influence their roles? The answers provide a nuanced account of the characteristics, conditions, and positions associated with women's activities in and experiences of climate change-a multifaceted portrayal of women that also demonstrates the generalization and essentializing that can hinder goals of sustainability and gender justice.

Because gender is a social construction, Detraz reminds us, change is possible. Her book offers the suggestion, and the hope, that identifying connections between ideas of gender and climate change might also alter our vision of a livable future.

By: Nicole Detraz
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780262542074
ISBN 10: 0262542072
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 12 April 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments ix 1 Introduction: What Are the Connections Between Gender and Climate Change? 1 2 Employing a Feminist Methodology 15 3 Women as Vulnerable: Precariousness in the Face of Climate Change 29 4 Women as Caregivers: Care Roles and Climate Change 65 5 Women as Knowledgeable: Expertise and Competence in Climate Change 97 6 Women as Agents: Participation and Barriers in Climate Change Work 133 7 Conclusions: Where Do We Go from Here? 175 Appendix: Participant Information 207 Notes 213 References 223 Index 253

Nicole Detraz is professor of political science at the University of Memphis. She is the author of Gender and the Environment and Environmental Security and Gender.

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