Opposing currents : the politics of water and gender in Latin America /

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Imprint:Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2005.
©2005
Description:1 online resource (xii, 250 pages)
Language:English
Series:Pitt Latin American series
Pitt Latin American series.
University of Pittsburgh Digital Editions.
University of Pittsburgh Digital Collections.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11226875
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Other authors / contributors:Bennett, Vivienne, 1953-
Dávila-Poblete, Sonia.
Rico, Nieves.
ISBN:9780822972655
0822972654
0822958546
9780822958543
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-237) and index.
Other form:Print version:
Table of Contents:
  • The connection between gender and water management / Margreet Zwarteveen and Vivienne Bennett
  • Latin American challenges to global water and gender policies / Sonia Dávila-Poblete and María Nieves Rico
  • Gender dimensions of neoliberal water policy in Mexico and Bolivia: empowering or disempowering / Rhodante Ahlers
  • Women in the "water war" in the Cochabamba valleys / Rocío Bustamente, Elizabeth Peredo, and María Esther Udaeta
  • To make waves: water and privatization in Tucumán, Argentina / Norma Giarraca and Norma del Pozo
  • Irrigation management, community participation, and equity in an Andean community / Juana Rosa Vera Delgado
  • Water as a source of equity and empowerment in Costa Rica / Lorena Aguilar
  • Women, equity, and household water management in the valley of Mexico / Michael C. Ennis-McMillan
  • Women and water in the northern Ecuadorean Andes / Elena P. Bastidas
  • Women at the helm of irrigated agriculture in Mexico: the other side of male migration / Stephanie Buechler
  • Toward a broader perspective / Vivienne Bennett, Sonia Dávila-Poblete, and Maria Nieves Rico.