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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Enarson, Elaine Pitt, 1949- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disasters--Social aspects.

Disasters.

Disaster relief--Social aspects.

Disaster relief.

Women--Social conditions.

Women.

Women--Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colorado : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2012.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

""Book Title""; ""Table of Contents""; ""List of Tables and Figures""; ""Tables""; ""1.1 Challenges of Women�s Everyday Lives: Selected Indicators""; ""3.1 Evaluating Feminist Theories Relevant to Disaster Risk Reduction""; ""10.1 How Women�s Collective Disaster Work Varies""; ""10.2 Research Questions About Women�s Work to Reduce Disaster Risk""; ""Figures""; ""3.1 Feminist Frameworks for Understanding Hazards and Disasters""; ""4.1 Cautionary Notes on Selected Vulnerability Indicators""; ""4.2 Illustrative Sex-Specific Census Data by Census Tract""

""4.3 From Numbers to Relationships: Anticipating Needs and Capacities""""11.1 Potential Risk-Reducing Partnerships""; ""Preface""; ""1-Women and Disasters in the United States""; ""2-Representations of Women in Disasters""; ""Making Sense of Disaster Through Popular Culture""; ""Gender in the Popular Culture of Disaster""; ""Retelling the Story: Women�s Popular Culture of Disaster""; ""Conclusion""; ""3-How Gender Changes Disaster Studies""; ""New (and Old) Thinking About Gender and Disaster""; ""Disaster Sociology and the Sociology of Gender""

""Putting Feminist Theories to Use in Disaster Work""""Conclusion""; ""4-Measuring Vulnerability and Capacity""; ""A Social Vulnerability Approach to Disasters""; ""Gendered Disaster Vulnerability""; ""Conclusion""; ""5-Health and Well-Being""; ""Gender Patterns in Disaster Survival""; ""Close Up: American Men at Risk in Extreme Heat""; ""Sexuality and Reproduction""; ""Maternal and Fetal Health""; ""Understanding Women�s Physical and Mental Health in Disasters""; ""Conclusion""; ""6-Violence Against Women""; ""Case Study Data: Patterns and Gaps""

""But Why? Real and Imagined Explanations""""The Amplification of Vulnerability""; ""Conclusion""; ""7-Intimacy and Family Life""; ""Divisions and Strains""; ""Women�s Domestic Labor and Care Work""; ""Conclusion""; ""8-Houses and Homes""; ""Women�s Housing Vulnerability""; ""Women in the Lead: Risk Communication and Preparedness""; ""Gender Relations in Evacuation""; ""Shelter in the Storm? Emergency Shelters, Tent Cities, and Trailer Camps""; ""The Road Home? Roadblocks for Women""; ""Conclusion""; ""9-Work and Workplaces""; ""The Economic Costs of Disasters to Women""

""Barriers to Women�s Recovery""""Women�s Backstage Disaster Work and Occupational Roles""; ""Women�s Care Work in Disasters: Occupational Work Offstage""; ""Conclusion""; ""10-Grassroots Groups and Recovery""; ""Women�s Leadership in Voluntary Relief and Recovery Work""; ""Women for Women: Collective Organizing and Leadership""; ""Emergent Women�s Organizations After Disasters""; ""Observations and Questions""; ""Conclusion""; ""11-Building Disaster Resilience""; ""Mainstreaming Gender in Disaster Work""; ""Mainstreaming: Intent and Implementation""

""The Empowerment Thesis: Challenging Male Power in Disasters""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-58826-956-6

OCLC:

836871944