| Description |
xx, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for Women and plants : gender relations in biodiversity management and conservation / edited by Patricia L. Howard. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- Foreword -- Women and the Plant World--Patricia L. Howard -- Part 1: Culture, Kitchen and Conservation -- Women in the Garden and Kitchen--Laurie S.Z. Greenberg -- Wild Food Plants and Arbr͡esh Women in Lucania, Southern Italy--Andrea Pieroni -- Women and "Wild" Foods--Ephrosine Daniggelis -- Part 2: Gender Relations, Women's Rights, and Plant Management -- Farm Women's Rights and Roles in Wild Plant Food Gathering and Management in Northeast Thailand-- Lisa Leimar Price -- Gender and Entitlements in the Zimbabwean Woodlands--Allison Goebel -- Part 3: Gendered Plant Knowledge in Science and Society -- "Passing on the News"--Nancy Turner -- The Invisible Queen in the Plant Kingdom--Brij Kothari -- The Gender of Crops in the Papua New Guinea Highlands--Paul Sillitoe -- Part 4: Plants, Women's Status and Welfare -- Gendering the Tradition of Plant Gatherng in Central Anatolia (Turkey)--Fusun Ertu -- The Basket-Makers of the Central California Interior--Linda Dick Bissonnette -- Exchange, Patriarchy and Status--Margot Wilson -- Part 5: Gender, Biodiversity Loss and Conservation -- Losing Ground--Stephen Wooten -- Modernization and Gender Dynamics in the Loss of Agrobiodiversity in Swaziland's Food System--Millicent Malaza -- Arawakan Women and the Erosian of Traditional Food Production in Amazonas Venezuela--Shirley Hoffmann -- Women and Maize Breeding--Yiching Song & -- Janice Jiggins -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Human-plant relationships, Plant diversity conservation, Biological diversity conservation |
| Summary |
"This collection of largely unpublished, in-depth case studies drawn from Latin America, Asia, Africa, Europe and North America aims to increase our understanding of the importance of women and gender relations in plant biodiversity management and conservation |
| Notes |
Published by Zed Books in association with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit and International Developement and Research Centre |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Human ecology.
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Ecofeminism.
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Biodiversity conservation.
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Human-plant relationships.
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Plant diversity conservation.
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| Author |
Howard, Patricia L., 1953-
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| LC no. |
2002190824 |
| ISBN |
1842771566 cased |
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1842771574 paperback |
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