Full Description
`Cranney's major methodological strengths as well as contributions (especially toward cross-cultural ethnography) are as follows: her documentation and reporting of changes in self through the long process of research; lively confessional honesty; personalised photography; and a calibrated, instead of static, structuring of the overall account.... All in all, the book is a welcome critical reminder of the unchecked march of misguided development and its impact on local gendered ecologies' - Piyush Mathur, Contemporary South AsiaThis book focuses on the ways in which the degradation of the environment has impacted the lives of poor women in rural India.
Contents
Theoretical PerspectivesResearch ApproachCapitalist Transformation in Himachal PradeshLocal Environment and Lived ExperienceThe Stories and Voices of Nirmala, Kalabiti and ShantiThe Environment and Women's WorkWomen's Health and EducationCulture, Subjectivity and Resistance
