TY - BOOK AU - Howard,Patricia L. TI - Women and plants: gender relations in biodiversity management and conservation SN - 1842771566 AV - QK46.5.H85 W66 2003 PY - 2003/// CY - New York PB - Zed Books ; KW - Human-plant relationships KW - Plant diversity conservation KW - Biodiversity conservation N1 - Published by Zed Books in association with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit and International Development and Research Centre; Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Women and the plant world: an exploration; Patricia L. Howard --; Part I; Culture, kitchen and conservation --; Women in the garden and kitchen: the role of cuisine in the conservation of traditional house lot crops among Yucatec Mayan immigrants; Laurie S.Z. Greenberg --; Wild food plants and Arbëresh women in Lucania, Southern Italy; Andrea Pieroni --; Women and 'wild' foods: nutrition and household security among Rai and sherpa forager-farmers in Eastern Nepal; Ephrosine Daniggelis --; Part II; Gender relations, women's rights and plant management --; Farm women's rights and roles in wild plant food gathering and management in North-East Thailand; Lisa Leimar Price --; Gender and entitlements in Zimbabwean woodlands: a case study of resettlement; Allison Goebel --; Part III; Gendered plant knowledge in science and society --; 'Passing on the news': women's work, traditional knowledge and plant resource management in indigenous societies of North-western North America; Nancy Turner --; The invisible queen in the plant kingdom: gender perspectives in medical ethnobotany; Brij Kothari --; The gender of crops in the Papua New Guinea Highlands; Paul Sillitoe --; Part IV; Plants, women's status and welfare --; Gendering the tradition of plant gathering in Central Anatolia (Turkey); Füsun Ertug230}0--; The basket makers of the Central California interior; Linda Dick Bissonnette --; Exchange, patriarchy and status: women's homegardens in Bangladesh; Margot Wilson --; Part V; Gender, biodiversity loss and conservation --; Losing ground: gender relations, commercial horticulture and threats to local plant diversity in rural Mali; Stephen Wooten --; Modernization and gender dynamics in the loss of agrobiodiversity in Swaziland's food system -; Millicent Malaza --; Arawakan women and the erosion of traditional food production in Amazonas Venezuela; Shirley Hoffman --; Women and maize breeding: the development of new seed systems in a marginal area of South-west China; Yiching Song and Janice Jiggins UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol053/2002190824.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol041/2002190824.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/hol041/2002190824.html ER -