Gender and Environment (Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts)

Buckingham-Hatfield, Susan

ISBN 10: 0415168198 / ISBN 13: 9780415168199

Published by Routledge, 2000

About this Item

Routledge hardcover sans dust jacket (as issued), 2000, 1st edition, clean/tight, No remainder marks/creases or other defects; Fine (like New). We will bubble-wrap the book and ship it in a BOX with delivery confirmation/tracking. NOTE: stock photo is the trade paperback version.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gender and Environment (Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415168198
• ISBN 13: 9780415168199
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Sociology

About this title

Synopsis

Accessible and lively, this is the first introductory level text to introduce the key issues in the rapidly growing area of gender and environment. This text provides an analysis of how gender relations affect the natural environment and of how environmental issues have a differential impact on women and men.
Using case studies from the developed and developing worlds, this text covers
· gendered roles in the family
· community and international connections
· conception
· giving birth
· western practices
· the body and the self.

About the Author

Dennis Brown, psychiatrist, analyst and group analyst was a leading figure in the field of group analysis and for many years worked both in the NHS and at the Group-Analytic Practice. With vast experience in the treatment of psychosomatic as well as psychological / psychiatric conditions, he taught internationally and was read widely. He co-authored Introduction to Psychotherapy: an outline of psychodynamic principles and practice. He was a founder member of the Routledge International Library of Group Psychotherapy. He was an important contributor in the development of psychotherapy services in the Health Service. Jason Maratos is a psychiatrist for children and adolescents and a group analyst based at The Group-Analytic Practice. In his work he integrates the discoveries of medicine, psychiatry (and the findings of developmental psychology), psychoanalysis and group analysis with philosophical trends from Aristotle to the post-modernists. He has published and lectured in the UK, Europe and South America.