Gender and Waste

This unique and timely book argues that the production, management and impact of waste are profoundly gendered.

While the business of making waste disappear is highly masculinised, the exposure to environmental problems is gendered in that pollution affects different bodies in different ways. Firmly set in a framework of feminist political ecology, Gendering Waste exposes the complex relationships towards waste in both Western societies with their consumerist lifestyles and the developing world. Part of Zed's Gender and Environment series, this innovative book positions women's and men's bodies in relation to power, to nature and to each other, re-visioning waste and seeking to change gendered social relations.