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This book focuses on the challenges of living with climate
disasters, in addition to the existing gender inequalities that
prevail and define social, economic and political conditions.
Social inequalities have consequences for the everyday lives of
women and girls where power relations, institutional and
socio-cultural practices make them disadvantaged in terms of
disaster preparedness and experience. Chapters in this book unravel
how gender and masculinity intersect with age, ethnicity, sexuality
and class in specific contexts around the globe. It looks at the
various kinds of difficulties for particular groups before, during
and after disastrous events such as typhoons, flooding, landslides
and earthquakes. It explores how issues of gender hierarchies,
patriarchal structures and masculinity are closely related to
gender segregation, institutional codes of behaviour and to a
denial of environmental crisis. This book stresses the need for a
gender-responsive framework that can provide a more holistic
understanding of disasters and climate change. A critical feminist
perspective uncovers the gendered politics of disaster and climate
change. This book will be useful for practitioners and researchers
working within the areas of Climate Change response, Gender
Studies, Disaster Studies and International Relations.
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