Regina -
Have you looked at Atu Emberson-Bain (ed). Sustainable Development or
Malignant Growth? Perspectives of Pacific Island Women., Marama
Publications, Suva, Fiji, 1994. 290 pp. Rooney has a chapter on logging
devastation in it, but it's all confronting reading.
Sincerely
Johanna Sutherland
Dept. International Relations
Research School Pacific and Asian Studies
Australian National University
CANBERRA 0200
On Thu, 28 Sep 1995, Regina Scheyvens wrote:
> Has anyone out there carried out research on the effects of logging on women
> in Third World countries?
>
> Next year I am going to the Solomon Islands to consider, firstly, how
> logging operations have affected women's lives (women being responsible for
> subsistence agriculture, collection of fuelwood and water, etc.) and how
> women have coped with the social and economic consequences of degradation of
> their environments.
>
> I would be interested in hearing from anyone who can suggest useful
> references on similar topics or anyone who has carried out similar work
> themselves. Thank you in advance for your help and ideas!
>
>
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Sep 28 06:00:22 1995
From: Niamh Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help on Women and Environment in NAmerica
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 12:56:43 +0100 (BST)
In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from "William
Affleck-Asch" at Sep 25, 95 11:27:07 am
Kirstin - Like William Affleck-Asch, I'd also be interested in any references on
ecofeminism/Canada (don't know anything about Mexico though) - I'm in
the process of trying to persuade my university
to give me some money to go to Vancouver Island off British Columbia
to look at women's involvement in the campaigns against clear-cut
logging there - having participated in "Clayoquot Summer 1993" two years
ago. This is part of the research for my PhD on ecofeminism. ( Is it
my imagination, or is the ecofeminist literature sadly lacking in
specific case studies of women and environment actions, except perhaps
from the "Third World", isn't one of the current challenges for
ecofeminism providing more specific context dependent accounts of
women's many and various relationships with nature? - Don't the women of
the Chipko movement need a break?)
.... anyway could obviously ramble on about my thoughts about my PhD forever!
Some references:
- the Women's Equality Gopher Server that William mentioned:
gopher.weq.gov.bc.ca - has some interesting info, and the short library
section lists some ecofem books. This gopher will also connect you to,
for example the Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks (which is also
the Ministry responsible for Human Rights and Multiculturalism) and
Ministry of Forests.
- The journal *Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme* had a
special issue on "Women and Environments", 13:3, 1993. - this has
interesting articles, on Clayoquot Sound, on the Inuit and
low-level flight testing, off the top of my head, if you would like the
complete contents let me know, and I'll dig it out.
- There is also a journal?/newsletter? called "Women and Environments"
produced in Toronto - i think it started out mainly on women in
urban/built environments, not necessarily ecofeminist, but recently has
been having more theoretical articles on this - do correct me anyone if
i'm off, have only a few articles on inter-library loan from this
publication. I can't just put my hand on the address at the moment,
but its somewhere about if you don't have it.
- There is also a refereed journal *The Trumpeter: Journal of Ecosophy*
produced in Victoria on Vancouver Island, which quite ofetn publishes
articles on ecofeminism, Vol.8, No.2, Spring 1991 has a number of
articles on ecofeminism:
Marti Kheel, Ecofeminism and Deep Ecology; Reflections on Identity and
Difference" (also in Diamond and Orenstein?)
Janis Birkeland, "An Ecofeminist Critique of Manstream Planning"
Susan Yeich, "Ecological Feminism: Drawing Connections Between The
Oppression of Women, Animals, and Nature"
Molly Baer Kramer, "Ecofeminism, Patriarchal Conceptual Frameworks, and
Old Memories"
Kate Sandilands, "Ecofeminism and Its Discontents: Notes Towards a
Politics of Diversity"
Address: The Trumpeter, P.O. Box 5853 Stn B, Victoria, B.C., Canada V8R 6S8
- also address for the Sierra Club, Victoria ( haven't even
gotten around to trying this myself!):http://ww.islandnet.com/~jwight/enviro
that's it for the moment.. but would like any other addresses you come
across, and am interested in any thoughts on ecofeminism in Canada ...
all the best,
Niamh Moore,
Research Centre in Women's Studies,
CULCOM PG P/H,
Arts B,
University of Sussex,
Falmer, Brighton BN2 3PE,
England.
tel. 01273-606755 ext. 2275
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