Gender,

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Lecture 22/22 ?

• Gender,
• Activism, and
• Natural Disasters

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Things

• Coffeehaus Monday, March 31 (next class)
• Posters Please post or distribute one each.
  Thanks.

• Review Class and Remainder of Presentations
  (Monday, April 7, here, same time 10-11)

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Today

• Presentations
• Remember Parsons
• David Suzuki
• Lecture Readings
• (1) NET Becoming an Outdoors Woman Nova Scotia.
  http//www.gov.ns.ca/natr/outdoor/
• (2) SMUO Marshall, L. (2005). Were women raped in
  New Orleans? Off Our Backs, 35 (9/10), 14-15.
• (3) SMUO Mehta, M. (2007). Gender and natural
  disasters New challenges for mountain
  development. Sustainable Mountain Development,
  52, 17-19. http//www.icimod.org/uploads/
  newsletter/nl52/gender.pdf

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Parsons Systems Theory SimplifiedThat is,
Parsons believed social systems aimed toward
social order through functions specific to all
levels of society (individual, social,
institutional).
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Our Man in Nature David Suzuki, 31 years ago

• Men dominated the scientific world, the political
  world, and the environmentalist world
• (link) David Suzuki bucks his own views and
  those of others he paved the way for others,
  especially those from a women and those of
  cultures other than mainstreamed European
  descendants.
• Consider the systems at play
• Clash of ideologies
• Science, race, propaganda, politics, war, family,
  education, environmental
• HOW FAR HAVE WE COME IN 31 YEARS?

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Women in the natural environmentLINK
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Becoming an Outdoors Woman?

• Which wider systems are implicated if, say, a 30
  year-old married, heterosexual, woman/mother
  wanted to go? (Refer to Parsonian system chart
  make your own grid to include some total
  institutions church, school, bank, prison,
  family, hospital)
• ? A 30 year-old homosexual childless woman?
• Weve learnedgender and sexuality play a role in
  how we negotiate into, around, and out from the
  natural environment.

• (link)
• It is a worldwide organization, beginning in USA
  1991, NS 1997. (I participated in 1999)
• Yet, oddly, no YOUTUBE clips at all, in stark
  contrast to Ducks Unlimited. Why could this be?
• In which wider system (Parsons) is BOW
  embedded? Why? What function does it serve Nova
  Scotia society? Nova Scotia women?
• Contrast it to Ducks Unlimited. Gender/Sexuality?
  Resources?

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• Marshall, L. (2005). Were women raped in New
  Orleans? Off Our Backs, 35 (9/10), 14-15. (link)
• start video at 300

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Marshall, L. (2005). Were women raped in New
Orleans? Off Our Backs, 35 (9/10), 14-15.
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link - Joni Seager

• Like what shes doing at York University? Write
  to herapplygochange the world.
• Noticing Gender (or Not) in Disasters
• Finds that most of the survivors are women (p.
  29).
• The not-noticing aspect of her article refers
  to how the official institutions often overlook
  the variable gender.

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Mehta, M. (2007). Gender and natural disasters
New challenges for mountain development.
Sustainable Mountain Development, 52, 17-19.

• (link)
• Many similar findingsalso
• women recover slower from natural disasters
  because of unemployment, lack of compensation for
  women widowed by the natural disaster, and in
  places outside the west, such as in Bangladesh
  and Afghanistan, it is morally problematic for
  women to be in the company of non-kin men (gender
  segregation is high and is the cultural norm)

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FYI

• Culley, M. and Angelique, H. (2003). Womens
  gendered experiences as long-term Three Mile
  Island activists. Gender and Society, 17 (3),
  445-461. (link)
• Women are leading the antinuclear/anti-toxic
  waste movement in the United States and abroad
  have challenged and redefined political power
  structure (p. 445). Given what weve
  discussed last class and this one
• Why do you think this is?
  

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SEE YOU MONDAY

• 10-11 Soci/Crim Department on 4th Floor in
  McNally South
• There will be breakfasty things to
  eatcoffeeplease drop in.