Week 4

Readings

  1. Boserup, E. 1970. Woman’s role in economic development. London: Earthscan Publications. Pp 15-52, Chapters 1-2 (Male and female farming systems,’ ‘The Economics of polygamy’) in Canvas.
  2. Women’s Environment and Development Organization. 2011. Gender, climate change and human security: Lessons from Senegal. Pp 317-26 in Visvanathan, Duggan, Wiegersma and Nisonoff (eds) The Women, Gender and Development Reader. London: Zed Books.
  3. Betsy Hartmann and Elizabeth Barajas-Roman. 2011. The population bomb is back–with a global warming twist. Pp 327-33 in Visvanathan, Duggan, Wiegersma and Nisonoff (eds) The Women, Gender and Development Reader. London: Zed Books.
  4. Gender and Environment Series Editorial Committee. 2011. Feminist political ecology. Pp 43-45 in Visvanathan, Duggan, Wiegersma and Nisonoff (eds) The Women, Gender and Development Reader. London: Zed Books.

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