Routledge Handbook of Gender and Water Governance

• Main Authors: Acevedo-Guerrero, Tatiana, Bossenbroek, Lisa, Leonardelli, Irene, Zwarteveen, Margreet, Kulkarni, Seema
• Format: eBook Book Publication
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2024; Taylor & Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
• Subjects: Civil engineering, surveying and building; Development studies; Earth sciences; Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning; Ecology; Economics, Finance, Business and Management; Energy industries and utilities; Environmental management; Environmental policy and protocols; Environmentalist thought and ideology; Gender; Gender studies, gender groups; Geography; Governance; Human geography; Hydrology and the hydrosphere; Industry and industrial studies; Interdisciplinary studies; Municipal ownership; Natural Resources; Nature; Nonfiction; Political Science; Politics; Politics and government; Public Policy; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Regional / International studies; Social groups, communities and identities; Social impact of environmental issues; Social Policy; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes; The environment; Water; Water rights; Water rights > Developing countries; Water sanitation; Water security; Water security > Developing countries; Water services; Water use; Water use > Social aspects > Developing countries; Water-supply; Water-supply > Social aspects > Developing countries; Women; Women > Developing countries > Social conditions; Water; Water sanitation; Water services; Gender; Governance
• ISBN: 0367607638; 9780367607586; 9780367607630; 0367607581; 9781003100379; 9781040120514; 1003100376; 1040120512; 1040120504; 9781040120507
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003100379

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the field of gender and water governance, exploring how the use, management and knowledge of water resources, services and the water environment are deeply gendered. In water there is a recognized gender gap between water responsibilities and water...

Table of Contents:

• 15 The contentious path of menstrual health: reflections on the past and provocations for the future of the water sanitation and hygiene sector -- 16 The many meanings of menstruation: practices, imaginaries and access to water and sanitation infrastructure in Lusaka, Zambia -- 17 Access to water, sanitation, and hygiene for all: focusing on transgender experiences in India -- 18 Harvest of uterus: poor sanitation, water scarcity, and the political economy of sugarcane in Maharashtra, India -- 19 Careful sanitation for shared water futures -- Part 4 Precarious livelihoods -- 20 Water reuse irrigation, gender, and poverty inequalities in Kafr El Sheikh, Egypt -- 21 Altering water flows in the Draa Valley, Morocco: a feminist analysis -- 22 Water, women and fishing livelihoods in South and Southeast Asia -- 23 Wet'suwet'en women leading the defense of rivers and water from abuses committed in connection with megaprojects. The persistent legacies of the past in Canada -- 24 Domesticity, masculinities and femininities: complicating gender and dealing with water in Pemba, Mozambique -- Part 5 New feminist futures -- 25 How water changes (every)things: a feminist study of how 'water worlds' shape processes of rural agrarian transformations in Maharashtra, India -- 26 Beyond water justice and water security: debates on water, women, and climate change in Latin America -- 27 Beyond material dimensions of water insecurity: gendered subjectivities, senses of community, and renewed political possibilities -- 28 Semá:th X_ó:tsa: fringe natures as decolonial feminist-queer-trans water imaginaries -- Concluding reflections - future directions for feminist water research -- Index
• Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- List of tables and figures -- List of contributors -- Introduction: a carrier bag for gender and feminist water research -- Part 1 Positionality and embodied waters -- 1 Women's anti-hydropower activism in Turkey: water, environmental struggles and bodily experiences -- 2 Making engineers tell their stories? Masculinity, whiteness and heteronormativity "at work" in life history interviews in irrigation in Nepal -- 3 Gendering groundwater salinity: a study of Lodhva, Gujarat, India -- 4 Mapping water care practices: the case of Ennore-Pulicat wetlands in Chennai, India -- 5 Women's bodily experiences: accessing and treating water in the Colombian Caribbean -- 6 Embodying the urban political ecology of water: three analytical approaches to urban water insecurity -- 7 The temporal fragility of water infrastructure: conceptualizing the gendered, affective labor of maintenance and repair -- Part 2 Revisiting water debates: diplomacy, security, justice, and heritage -- 8 Household water security experiences of women and girls in rural Ghana -- 9 Toxic homes, toxic water: housing, segregation and gendered responsibilities for household water insecurity in the American Rust Belt -- 10 Poverty, water security, and women's activism in Liberia -- 11 Gender, human rights and water governance in Indonesia -- 12 Peace, power, participation: transboundary water cooperation through a gender lens -- 13 New spaces for water justice? Groundwater extraction and changing gendered subjectivities in Morocco's Saïss Region -- 14 Liquid heritage: can water museums facilitate a new gendered water ethics? -- Part 3 Sanitation stories