Taking stands : gender and the sustainability of rural communities / Maureen G. Reed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reed, Maureen Gail, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in rural development--British Columbia.

Women in rural development.

Women in forestry--British Columbia.

Women in forestry.

Sustainable forestry--British Columbia.

Sustainable forestry.

Forestry and community--British Columbia.

Forestry and community.

Forests and forestry--Social aspects--British Columbia.

Forests and forestry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Environmental activism in rural places frequently pits residents whose livelihood depends on resource extraction against those who seek to protect natural spaces and species. While many studies have focused on women who seek to protect the natural environment, few have explored the perspectives of women who seek to maintain resource use. This book goes beyond the dichotomies of "pro" and "anti" environmentalism to tell the stories of these women. Maureen Reed uses participatory action research to explain the experiences of women who seek to protect forestry as an industry, a livelihood, a community, and a culture. She links their experiences to policy making by considering the effects of environmental policy changes on the social dynamics of workplaces, households, and communities in forestry towns of British Columbia's temperate rainforest. The result is a critical commentary about the social dimensions of sustainability in rural communities. A powerful and challenging book, Taking Stands provides a crucial understanding of community change in resource-dependent regions, and helps us to better tackle the complexities of gender and activism as they relate to rural sustainability. Social and environmental geographers, feminist scholars, and those engaged in rural studies, environmental sustainability, community planning, and policy making will find it invaluable.

Contents:

Introduction: seeing the trees among women in forestry communities

Transition and social marginalization of forestry communities

Policy and structural change in rural British Columbia

Women and woods work: the gender of forestry jobs

women's lives, husbands' wives: "managing" forestry communities

Communities confront outsiders

Fitting in: making a place for gender in environmental and land use planning

Social sustainability and the renewal of research agendas.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-274) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-33058-X

9786613330581

0-7748-5056-6

OCLC:

923439561