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Livelihood and gender
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ISBN: 1282425277 9786612425271 8132103858 9788132103851 0761997792 9780761997795 0761997792 8178292629 Year: 2004 Publisher: New Delhi Thousand Oaks Sage Publications

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This significant volume critically examines the complex and many-layered process of mainstreaming gender in natural resource management. The contributors. - build a richly textured `genderscape` of community resource rights in varied contexts. - unravel the gender barriers in traditional practices, community institutions and modern systems of governance. - document diverse approaches to livelihood. - present a strong case for gender equity in sustainable resource management

The dignity of resistance : women residents' activism in Chicago public housing
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ISBN: 9780511734977 9780521593205 9780521596862 9781107321267 1107321263 0521593204 0521596866 1139809571 9781139809573 0511734972 1107315875 9781107315877 1107317800 9781107317802 0511889526 9780511889523 0511970463 9780511970467 1299399118 9781299399112 1107314895 9781107314894 110714213X Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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The Dignity of Resistance chronicles the four decade history of Chicago's Wentworth Gardens public housing residents' grassroots activism. This comprehensive case study explores why and how these African-American women creatively and effectively engaged in organizing efforts to resist increasing government disinvestment in public housing and the threat of demolition. Roberta M. Feldman and Susan Stall, utilizing a multi-disciplinary lens, explore the complexity and resourcefulness of Wentworth women's grassroots, organizing the ways in which their identities as poor African-American women and mothers both circumscribe their lives and shape their resistance. Through the inspirational voices of the activists, Feldman and Stall challenge portrayals of public housing residents as passive, alienated victims of despair. We learn instead how women residents collectively have built a cohesive, vital community, cultivated outside technical assistance, organizational and institutional supports, and have attracted funding - all to support the local facilities, services and programs necessary for the everyday needs for survival, and ultimately to save their home from demolition.

Ngecha: a Kenyan village in a time of rapid social change
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ISBN: 0803248091 0803204183 9780803204188 9780803248090 Year: 2004 Publisher: Lincoln, Neb. University of Nebraska Press

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