Women's Voices from the Rainforest / Edition 1

by Janet Gabriel Townsend

Overview

Women's Voices from the Rainforest explores the position of the women whose families are tearing down the rainforest. These women of Central and Latin America have been largely invisible until now, but they are at last turning their voices into action.
International development policy and its top-down culture must take much of the blame for environmental and social destruction of the rainforest. Presenting the contrasting results of different methodologies, a comprehensive literature review, and the voices of the rainforest women themselves, told in life histories, the authors argue for the adoption of "grassroots" strategies, not international solutions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415105316
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/05/1995
Series:	Routledge International Studies of Women and Place
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements, PREFACE: THREE CONVERSIONS, Part 1 Outsiders, Part 2 Outsiders and insiders, Part 3 Insiders’ voices? Mexican women speak, Bibliography, Index