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Author_Elaine Enarson
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Women's Studies
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- ISBN 9780275961107
- Weight: 539g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 1998
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 Australian bushfires, reconstructed communities after a Mexican earthquake, and mobilized women in Miami in the wake of Hurricane Andrew. From Bangladesh to Scotland, the case studies document the root causes of women's vulnerability to disaster and the central roles they play before, during and after disaster. The authors recommend strategies for policy makers and emergency practitioners to more fully engage women in disaster planning and response.
ELAINE ENARSON is Visiting Scholar at the University of British Columbia's Disaster Preparedness Resources Centre and Community Research Scholar with the UBC Centre for Research in Women's Studies and Gender Relations.
BETTY HEARN MORROW is Associate Professor of Sociology and a research associate of the International Hurricane Center at Florida International University.
