Women, Urbanization and Sustainability: Practices of Survival, Adaptation and Resistance (Gender, Development and Social Change) - 9781349951819

This work considers the city as a gendered space and examines womenÆs experiences and engagement in both urbanization and sustainability. Such a focus offers distinctive insights into the question of what it means for a city to be sustainable, asking further how sustainability needs to work with gender and the gendered lives of citiesÆ inhabitants. Vitally, it considers womenÆs lives in cities and their work to forge more sustainable cities through a wide variety of means, including governmental, non-governmental and local grassroots and individual efforts towards sustainable urban life. The volume is transnational, offering case-studies from a wide range of city sites and sustainability efforts. It explores crucial questions such as the gendered nature and womenÆs experiences of current urbanization; the gendered nature of urban sustainability thinking and programmes; and local alternatives and resistances to dominant modes of addressing urbanization challenges.

• | Author: Anita Lacey
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Apr 10, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 315 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Political Science
• | ISBN-10: 1349951811
• | ISBN-13: 9781349951819