Towards north-south interconnectedness: A critique of gender dualities in sustainable development, the environment and women’s health

Rachel Simon-Kumar, Sara MacBride-Stewart, Susan Baker, Lopamudra Patnaik Saxena

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    Abstract

    Well-established bodies of scholarship that inform contemporary global debates on gender, environment and health are fundamentally based on dualistic representations of women, such as First/Third World, rich/poor and victim/polluter. In this paper, we argue that recent socioeconomic transitions — affluence in the global South and rising inequality in the global North — demand the development of gender analytical frameworks that better recognize the
    diversity of roles that women play in the changing global social order that impact on their health. Our paper (a) critiques the dualisms found in three influential bodies of scholarship, namely gender, environment and development, science, technology and society, and sustainable development; and (b) through our critique, conceptually develops an ‘interconnectedness’ perspective that focuses on the increasingly shared lived realities of women in the North and the South, to understand the emerging complex relationships between gender, environment and health.

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    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)246-263
    Number of pages18
    JournalGender, Work & Organization
    Volume25
    Issue number3
    Early online date4 Aug 2017
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - May 2018

    Keywords

    • gender
    • North-South
    • sustainable development
    • health
    • environment

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • General Social Sciences

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