(Part 4: Participation and Cultural Change) Chapter 10: Women and Water in the Northern Ecuadorean Andes
Book Title
Opposing Currents : The Politics of Water and Gender in Latin America
ORCID ID
0000-0001-9314-748X
Document Type
Book Chapter
ISBN
9780822972655
Publication Date
12-13-2005
Editors
Vivienne Bennett, Sonia Davila-Poblete, and Maria Nieves Rico
Description
This book represents an important contribution to a growing subfield of feminist scholarship. Moving beyond a focus on the traditional policy areas normally associated with women and politics, the authors bring a gender analysis to bear on the “politics of water” in Latin America. Not only is this a policy issue not usually linked to women's rights, but, as the editors argue, even the national-level women's policy agencies created in many Latin American countries have overlooked the way gender discrimination impacts the heightening water crisis facing much of the region. Nevertheless, they maintain that “the right to water underpins all other social rights” (p. 15) and that “a gender perspective is not only possible but essential for effective water management” (p. ix).
DOI
10.2307/j.ctt9qh61c.15
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
First Page
154
Last Page
169
Disciplines
Geography | Nature and Society Relations | Political Science | Social and Behavioral Sciences
NSUWorks Citation
Bastidas, Elena. (2005). (Part 4: Participation and Cultural Change) Chapter 10: Women and Water in the Northern Ecuadorean Andes. In Vivienne Bennett, Sonia Davila-Poblete, and Maria Nieves Rico (Eds.), Opposing Currents : The Politics of Water and Gender in Latin America .