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Gender and Environment: some preliminary questions about women and water in the South Australian context
This paper speculates on three issues about the relationship between women and water, focusing on the context of South Australia, a particularly dry part of the world. First, it is suggested that gender affects our connections to environmental resources, in this instance to water. Second, it is noted that currently unexamined archival material exists for the South Australian situation and that the analysis of this material may shed light on the relationship between gender and environmental resources. Third, it is possible to argue that the conflation of nature and the feminine through such things as tropic devices in language results in both being constituted largely as corporeal, as bodies requiring management. Such a possibility suggests that a body politics exists in environmental studies and related disciplines that requires further theoretical work. © 1995, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved.
History
Publication title
Gender, Place and Culture: a Journal of Feminist GeographyPagination
209-215ISSN
0966-369XDepartment/School
School of Geography, Planning and Spatial SciencesPublisher
RoutledgePlace of publication
United KingdomRepository Status
- Restricted