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Intersectional in approach, this volume of Advances in Gender Research offers an overview of the ways in which environments — broadly defined to include social, natural and built territories, domains and habitats — are gendered. Rooted in qualitative, feminist and change-oriented perspectives, this international set of scholars and practitioners provides an understanding of how marginalized and indigenous populations, often overlooked, relate to natural and built environments.
Drawing on real-world interviews, as well as their political and historical contexts, contributors highlight the voices of women and their interactions with their environments. Chapters critically consider the threats, barriers and limitations of urban design to the movements of women, including those with disabilities, covering cases such as:
- home-based sex work in Punjab cities
- workplace environments and their role in women’s career building
- environmental activism and cities
- Asian American women in STEM disciplines
- indigenous change agents in the Amazon
- change in built environments, specifically in Athens and Rome
- agriculture in the Colombian Amazon
- queer eco-spirituality
Demonstrating how women and other marginalized groups respond to the limits and options imposed by the history and structure of spaces, People, Spaces and Places in Gendered Environments envisions a world beyond colonial, able-bodied, class and patriarchal limitations where freedom of movement functions for all.
As a member of the oldest environmental organization in the United States, the Sierra Club (founded in 1892), I am especially pleased to endorse this important work about how the climate crisis is affecting women. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change found that 80% of displaced persons are women. Examining natural and built environments in their physical, social-psychological, and spiritual manifestations, [this volume] provides a broad view of the relationship between gender and environments.
Vasilikie (Vicky) Demos is Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Minnesota Morris, USA. She has received various awards, including the Harriet Martineau Sociological Society Annual Award and the UMM Distinguished Research Award.
Marcia Texler Segal is Professor of Sociology and Dean for Research Emerita, Indiana University Southeast, USA, and Co-Chair of the Feminist Development sub-section of the American Sociological Association Section on Development.
People, Spaces and Places in Gendered Environments: An Introduction; Marcia Texler Segal and Vasilikie (Vicky) Demos
Part 1. Urban Environments
Chapter 1. Women and Public Space in late-1980s Athens, Greece: Reflections on Gender, Space and Future Cities; Christina Marouli
Chapter 2. Nel Gasometro: A Gender Perspective on the Ostiense District of Rome; Marzia D’Amico
Part 2. Workplace Environments
Chapter 3. Recent Asian Immigrant Women Scholars in STEM Fields: A Study of Gender and Environment Impacts on their Career Pathways; Dao T. Nguyen
Chapter 4. Workplace Environment for Gender Equality and Sustainable Career Planning: The Case of Bangladesh; Lubaba Basharat and Md Jahangir Alam
Chapter 5. Indoor Sex Workers in Punjab: A Qualitative Enquiry; Rachana Sharma
Part 3. Ecofeminisms
Chapter 6. My First Environmentalist; Clara E. Rodríguez
Chapter 7. Indigenous Women and Climate Change in the Colombian Amazon; K. Lorena Romero Leal and Julián Neira Carreño
Chapter 8. Ecofeminist Ecospirituality: Manifestations of Queerness and Gender in (re)connecting with nature and the non-human world; Asmae Ourkiya, Todd Jared LeVasseur, and Paul M. Pulé