'Gender and Sustainability' book launch

Join us for an event that celebrates the publication of the book “Gender and Sustainability: Lessons from Asia and Latin America,” which began as a research cluster at the Institute for Humanities Research.

The book was published in November by the University of Arizona Press and deals with the struggles of women and men to negotiate such forces as global environmental change, economic development pressures, discrimination and stereotyping about the roles of women and men, and diminishing access to natural resources – not in the abstract but in everyday life.

Contributors are concerned with the lived complexities of the relationship between gender and sustainability. Through rich ethnographic case studies, the book demonstrates that gender analysis offers useful insights into how a more sustainable world can be negotiated – one household and one community at a time.

Featured speakers include:

• Stephanie Buechler, research associate, School of Geography and Development at the University of Arizona
• María L. Cruz-Torres, associate professor, School of Transborder Studies
• James Eder, professor, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
• Mary Margaret Fonow, professor, School of Social Transformation
• LaDawn Haglund, associate professor, School of Transborder Studies
• Pamela McElwee, assistant professor, Department of Human Ecology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
• Angelita Reyes, professor, School of Social Transformation
• Amber Wutich, associate professor, School of Human Evolution & Social Change

The book launch will take place from 9 a.m. to noon, Feb. 22, in Social Sciences, room 109, Tempe campus. Refreshments will be provided. Click here to RSVP.

This event is cosponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research and the School of Transborder Studies. For more information, please contact the IHR at 480-965-3000 or IHR@asu.edu.