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Opposing currents : the politics of water and gender in Latin America / edited by Vivienne Bennett, Sonia Dávila-Poblete, and María Nieves Rico.
Lippincott Library HD1696.5.L37 O66 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Pitt Latin American series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Water-supply--Government policy--Latin America.
- Water-supply.
- Water-supply--Social aspects--Latin America.
- Women in development--Latin America.
- Women in development.
- Water-supply--Social aspects.
- Water-supply--Government policy.
- Latin America.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 250 pages : map ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2005]
- Summary:
- Collection of essays examining the intersection between water conservation and womenUs roles in a variety of Latin American settingsQrural and urban, across a range of countries.
- Contents:
- The connection between gender and water management / Margreet Zwarteveen and Vivienne Bennett
- Global water and gender policies : Latin American challenges / Sonia Dávila-Poblete and María Nieves Rico
- Gender dimensions of neoliberal water policy in Mexico and Bolivia: empowering or disempowering? / Rhodante Ahlers
- Women in the "water war" in the Cochabamba valleys / Rocío Bustamente, Elizabeth Peredo, and María Esther Udaeta
- To make waves: water and privatization in Tucumán, Argentina / Norma Giarracca and Norma del Pozo
- Irrigation management, the participatory approach, and equity in an Andean community / Juana Rosa Vera Delgado
- Water as a source of equity and empowerment in Costa Rica / Lorena Aguilar
- Women, equity, and household water management in the valley of Mexico / Michael C. Ennis-McMillan
- Women and water in the northern Ecuadorean Andes / Elena P. Bastidas
- Women at the helm of irrigated agriculture in Mexico: the other side of male migration / Stephanie Buechler
- Toward a broader perspective / Vivienne Bennett, Sonia Dávila-Poblete, and Maria Nieves Rico.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-237) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0822958546
- OCLC:
- 55877843
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