Gendered

Question 1

What did Janet Momsen (2004) argue

Answer 1

development agencies have tried to use the link between women and environment as a source of cheap labour

Question 2

who argued that development agencies have tried to use the link between women and environment as a cheap source of labour

Answer 2

Janet Momsen (2004)

Question 3

what is ecofeminism

Answer 3

a movement that makes connections between environmentalists and feminisms

Question 4

What did Jewitt (2019) state

Answer 4

it is dangerous to assume women have a large amount of environmental knowledge and that they can easily take part in environmentally oriented development projects

Question 5

What does Shiva suggest in Jewitt (2019)

Answer 5

Women can offer an alternative caring and nurturing relationship with nature, women are an ‘intimate part of nature’

Question 6

What does Shiva claim women have done

Answer 6

made many agricultural innovations such as irrigation and the hoe

Question 7

How can women be limited

Answer 7

by taboos e.g. women cant hunt or plough (Jewitt, 2019)

Question 8

Gendered issues in Jharkhand (Jewitt 2000)

Answer 8

• men inherit land
• with hunts
• women have little say
• women participle in forest-based gathering

Question 9

limitations of eco-feminist approaches

Answer 9

don’t acknowledge existing social structures which restrict rural women to ‘invisible work’ in ‘partnership with nature’ (Nanda, 1991)