The Earthscan Reader on Gender and Forests

Carol J. Pierce Colfer is a Senior Associate at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and Visiting Scholar at Cornell University’s Southeast Asia Program, Ithaca, New York, USA. Marlène Elias is a Gender Specialist at Bioversity International, Rome, Italy. Bimbika Sijapati Basnett is Gender Coordinator at CIFOR in Bogor, Indonesia. Susan Stevens Hummel is a Research Forester at the Pacific Northwest (PNW) Research Station, US Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Portland, Oregon, USA.

1. Introduction to Gender and Forests: Themes, Contents and Gaps Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Marlène Elias, Susan Hummel and Bimbika Sijapati Basnett Part 1: Global Conceptual, Epistemological and Methodological Analyses 2. Earth Mother Myths and other Ecofeminist Fables: How a Strategic Notion Rose and Fell Melissa Leach 3. In Theory and in Practice: Women Creating Better Accounts of the World Louise Fortmann 4. On Communication Among 'Unequals' Carol J. Pierce Colfer 5. Discordant Connections: Discourses on Gender and Grassroots Activism in Two Forest Communities in India and Sweden Seema Arora-Jonsson Part 2: Knowledge, Community Forestry and Grouping in South Asia 6. A Feminist in the Forest: Situated Knowledges and Mixing Methods in Natural Resource Management Andrea Nightingale 7. The Hidden Side of Group Behaviour: A Gender Analysis of Community Forestry in South Asia Bina Agarwal Part 3: Agroforestry, Tenure and Conceptual Framing in Africa 8. Shady Practice: Gender and the Political Ecology of Resource Stabilization in Gambian Garden/orchards Richard A. Schroeder 9. African Shea Butter: A Feminized Subsidy from Nature Marlène Elias and Judith Carney Part 4: Conjugal Relations, Migration, and Forest-based Livelihoods in Southeast Asia 10. Working Separately but Eating Together: Personhood, Property, and Power in Conjugal Relations Tania Li 11. Migrant Pathways to Resource Access in Lampung’s Political Forest: Gender, Citizenship and Creative Conjugality Rebecca Elmhirst Part 5: Forested Landscapes and Farming in Latin America 12. Masculine and Feminine Exchanges Working to (Re)Produce or Degrade Andean Silvopasture Systems Susan Paulson 13. Trees as Tools, Trees as Text: Struggles over Resources in Zambrana-Chacuey, Dominican Republic Dianne Rocheleau and Laurie Ross Part 6: A Glimpse of Gender Systems in ‘the North’ 14. Marginality and Gender at Work in Forestry Communities of British Columbia, Canada Maureen G. Reed 15. The Politics of Invasive Weed Management: Gender, Race, and Risk Perception in Rural California Kari M. Norgaard Part 7: Learning and Building on the Classics 16. Concluding Reflections for the Future Bimbika Sijapati Basnett, Marlène Elias, Susan Stevens Hummel and Carol J. Pierce Colfer