Description:
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online.
Reimagining intersectional research, this book addresses the urgent need to develop gender-just solutions that empower those who are experiencing environmental degradation in their communities.
Review Quotes:
It is well known that women are uniquely and disproportionately impacted by climate change in the Global South. Alarmingly, many scholars ignore what these women have to say about their lived experiences and the solutions that follow from them. In Empowering Female Climate Change Activists in the Global South: The Path Toward Environmental Social Justice, Dr. Peg Spitzer draws on oral history interviews to give a voice to women affected by climate change and, in the process, describes solutions that not only empower women but also improve the environment. This book is a must read. It leaves the reader with a sense of hope that if women, who find themselves in difficult circumstances across the planet, can leave the world better off for all of us than we surely can do the same.
--John M. Shandra, Professor of Sociology, State University of New York at Stony Brook