Women and Climate Change av Nicole Detraz

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<b>How ideas of gender and climate change intersect with our path to a livable future.</b><br><br>When you think "climate change," who comes to mind? Who''s doing the science, the reporting, the protesting, the suffering? In <i>Women and Climate Change</i>, Nicole Detraz asks where women in the Global North figure in the picture, what that means, and why it matters. Her answers fill critical gaps in what we know about the politics of climate change and gender.<br><br>Representations of climate change, like perceptions of gender, can make a profound difference in understanding expectations and actions around social, cultural, and political issues. Interviewing women living in the Global North who work in the climate change sphere, Detraz examines the crucial links between notions of climate change and gender—in particular, how women are portrayed in climate change debates. Where is their presence or absence recognized? What tasks are they expected to perform? What factor