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Book SynopsisFeminist Frontiers in Climate Justice provides a compelling demonstration of the deeply gendered and unequal effects of the climate emergency, alongside the urgent need for a feminist perspective to expose and address these structural political, social and economic inequalities. Taking a nuanced, multidisciplinary approach, this book explores new ways of thinking about how climate change interacts with gender inequalities and feminist concerns with rights and law, and how the human world is bound up with the non-human, natural world.
With contributions from leading scholars in law, feminism, human rights and politics, this book considers how equality is conceptualised experienced and used in policies, law and practice that are integral to climate justice. Chapters reveal how international and national policy and legal frameworks fall short on gender equality and climate justice. Overall, the book demonstrates that the climate crisis demands an ambitious and transformative approach to equality, including developing feminist ideas of care and social reproduction, to reconstruct law and policy towards a more just world for all.
This ground-breaking book will be essential reading for scholars across many areas of law including environmental law, human rights, public international law, law and gender, and law and development. Its discussion of the international framework alongside in-depth case
studies and assessments of women’s mobilization strategies will also be highly relevant to social scientists, officials in international organizations, policymakers, lawyers and activists.
Trade Review‘Hearty congratulations to the authors of Feminist Frontiers in Climate Justice
for exposing the gender discriminatory dimensions of climate injustices. The best way to honor this book is to read it and ask how we can bring feminist perspectives to the development of mitigation and adaptation strategies necessary to achieve climate justice.’ -- Rebecca Cook, University of Toronto, Canada
Table of ContentsContents: Introduction – Feminist Frontiers in Climate Justice: Rights, climate change and gender equality 1 Cathi Albertyn, Helena Alviar García, Meghan Campbell, Sandra Fredman and Marta Rodriguez de Assis Machado 1 The inequality of climate change and the difference it makes 17 Shreya Atrey 2 A critical evaluation of inter-generational equity and its application in the climate change context 40 Kate Wilkinson Cross 3 A feminist critique on gender based violence in a changing climate: Seeing, listening and responding 68 Rowena Maguire 4 A greener CEDAW: Adopting a women’s substantive equality approach to climate change 90 Meghan Campbell 5 The world of work: A green and feminist future? 116 Sandra Fredman 6 Radical connectedness: Reproductive rights, climate justice and gender equality 138 Cathi Albertyn 7 Gender equality and climate change in plural legal contexts: A critical analysis of Kenya’s law and policy framework 165 Patricia Kameri-Mbote and Nkatha Kabira 8 Climate change and gender in Colombia: Exploring female led struggle in the flower industry 188 Helena Alviar García and María Carolina Olarte-Olarte 9 The value of litigation to women environmental human rights defenders in South Africa 213 Lisa Chamberlain 10 ‘Grass in the cracks’: Gender, social reproduction and climate justice in the Xolobeni struggle 246 Beth Goldblatt and Shireen Hassim 11 Indigenous women against Bolsonaro’s government in Brazil: Resisting right-wing authoritarianism and demanding climate justice 268 Marta Machado, Denise Vitale and Danielle Rached Index
