Women, the Environment and Sustainable Development: Towards a Theoretical Synthesis.

• Author: Fruchtbaum, Harold

Rosi Braidotti, Ewa Charkiewicz, Sabine Hausler, Saskia Wieringa UN International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW), Santo Domingo Zed Books, London, 1994 220 pp. 12.95/$19.95. ISBN 1-85649-184-6

The quest for connections between the ideas of women's, environmental and development movements is not an easy venture. That makes the achievement of the four authors of this book all the more noteworthy Expanded from a report commissioned by INSTRAW in 1990, the work begins by declaring that for the people of the South "the development process contributed to the growth of poverty, to an increase in economic and gender inequalities, and to the degradation of the environment which further...