Gendered Fields Rural Women, Agriculture, And Environment

Applying a feminist and environmentalist approach to her investigation of how the changing global economy affects rural women, Carolyn Sachs focuses on land ownership and use, cropping systems, and women's work with animals in highly industrialized as well as developing countries.Viewing rural women's daily lives in a variety of circumstances, Sach

* Situating Rural Women in Theory and Practice * Feminist Theory and Rural Women * Rural Women and Nature * Rural Womens Connections to the Land * Womens Work with Plants * Womens Work with Animals * Women on Family Farms: A Reappraisal * Global Restructuring, Local Outcomes, and the Reshaping of Rural Womens Work * Conclusion

Carolyn E. Sachs is associate professor of rural sociology and women's studies at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Invisible Farmers: Women in Agricultural Production (Westview).