Women Reclaiming Sustainable Livelihoods

This volume highlights women's work sustaining local economies and environments, particularly in response to the current food, fuel and climate crises. It includes women's role in the green entrepreneurship, women's reproductive and productive work in the care economy, and a further examination of eco feminist debates.

Wendy Harcourt is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the International Institute of Social Students of Erasmus University. The Hague, The Netherlands, She is the author of five books, including the prize-winning Body Politics in Development. She has written extensively on sexual and reproductive rights, environment, globalization and development from a gender perspective.

List of Tables and Figures	p. vii
Series Editor's Preface	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Notes on Contributors	p. x
Prologue	p. xii
Women Reclaiming Sustainable Livelihoods: An Introduction	p. 1
Redefining Sustainable Livelihoods	p. 12
Framing Gender and Livelihood Concerns Today
Women Advocating for Sustainable Livelihoods and Gender Equality on the Global Stage	p. 21
Towards Gender Equality in Global Sustainable Consumption and Production Agreements	p. 42
Gender Equality in Certified Agricultural Value Chains	p. 62
Global Agricultural Policies, Institutional Interventions, and Women's Livelihoods	p. 83
Global Institutions Try to Get It Right: An Insider's Perspective	p. 101
Gender and Livelihoods in Place
Your Caring Sharing Co-op: Women, Work and Sustainability in a Polanyian Paradigm	p. 109
Gender and Sustainable Livelihoods in India: 'Side-Stream'/'Mainstream'	p. 125
The Dream Merchants Have No Clothes: Women's Rights and Empowerment in the Microfinance Regime	p. 142
The Cost of Peace: Exploring Opportunities for Women's Livelihoods in Post-conflict Settings	p. 162
Sustaining Women's and Community Livelihoods in Rural Tanzania	p. 180
Sustainable Livelihoods and Gender in the Marginal Alpine Communities of Trentino	p. 191
Indigenous Women Claiming Their Land	p. 213
Emerging Issues for Gender and Livelihoods
Biocapital, Biopolitics and Biosocialities: Refraining Health, Livelihoods and Environments with New Genetics and Biotechnology	p. 221
Gender and Sustainable Livelihoods in Urban Honiara	p. 238
Gender and Climate Justice	p. 257
Epilogue: Green-Washing Warnings	p. 266
Index	p. 271
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