The Gendered Terrain of Disaster: Through Women's Eyes

by Elaine Enarson and Betty Morrow

Gender is revealed as a central organizing principle in social life when the unexpected transforms daily routines, environments, and social institutions. Using specific disaster experiences from around the world, this book argues for a gendered perspective in policy, practice and research. Contributing authors challenge the image of women as hapless victim in their accounts of women who rebuilt flooded homes in Bangladesh, evacuated families from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275961109
• ISBN13: 9780275961107
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.6"