Gender and Climate Change

Joane Nagel offers an original and compelling take on climate change that will attract a major popular and scholarly audience, including teachers and students in a wide range of courses. She documents intriguing and tragic disproportionate impacts of climate on women, as well as the male-dominated profile of the fossil fuel industry and climate deniers. While her findings don’t obscure the universal threat to both genders, they make clear that if you care about women you must urgently work to stop climate change, and that women will help lead resistance to the economic and military forces wreaking havoc on our environment. Charles Derber, author of Greed to Green: Solving Climate Change and Remaking the Economy (Routledge) and Dying for Capitalism: How Big Money Fuels Extinction and What We Can Do About It (Routledge) This book is an easy-to-understand text that adeptly covers the major issues surrounding gender and climate change. The author’s approach to the subject matter is superb and the straightforward writing style makes this an ideal book for undergraduates. Given the environmental challenges we currently face, texts of this kind are essential to the education of present-day college students. Danielle Roth-Johnson, Director, Gender & Sexuality Studies, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Joane Nagel focuses her keen sociological eye on the intersection of gender and climate change, and the result is an exceptionally insightful analysis of topics such as women’s greater vulnerability to a warming world, male domination of climate science and resulting blindspots, and the need for women having a greater voice in climate change policy-making. Her volume provides a superb example of the value of sociological insights into climate change. Riley E. Dunlap, Dresser Professor and Regents Professor of Sociology, Oklahoma State University This book is an essential text for understanding our climate and our world from a unique and important angle. The author’s approach and analysis is pitched at the right level, very approachable and understandable to social science and humanities undergrads with little to no prior knowledge of climate change, and how gender relates to it. The book gives a basic, comprehensive introduction to the linkages between the issues, which is what students need. Given our current context, a text of this kind is more needed than ever! Jade S. Sasser, Associate Professor of Gender & Sexuality, University of California, Riverside This book is an essential text and definitely very important. It is very well organized, lucidly written, and students enjoy it (the best students particularly enjoy it and work well with it). Just having such a book encourages people to teach classes on this needed topic! Jane Caputi, Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Florida Atlantic University We have waited a long time for a book this good—hard-hitting and analytic, amply supported empirically yet accessible to generalists, and fine-grained enough to bring these critical issues to life. What an accomplishment! Nagel deftly synthesizes a wide range of multidisciplinary research to persuasively argue that yes, gender and climate change are connected—and why gender justice and climate justice are inextricably linked. Elaine Enarson, Independent Scholar