Women and fight against waste: A space for emancipation or gendered alienation?
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TexteLangue : français Détails de publication : 2020.
Sujet(s) : Ressources en ligne : Abrégé : The topic of waste has become a major issue in environmentalist struggles. Today, in France, it is particularly invested by mostly young women that commit themselves to a kind of everyday activism, revolving around the domestic space, its material practices and its gendered division of tasks. Supported by two fieldworks, sociological and ethnographical, and by researches on the historical relationships between women and waste, this article study the benefits and the limits of this modern form of activism, considering the extent to which it subverts or reproduces male dominance.
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The topic of waste has become a major issue in environmentalist struggles. Today, in France, it is particularly invested by mostly young women that commit themselves to a kind of everyday activism, revolving around the domestic space, its material practices and its gendered division of tasks. Supported by two fieldworks, sociological and ethnographical, and by researches on the historical relationships between women and waste, this article study the benefits and the limits of this modern form of activism, considering the extent to which it subverts or reproduces male dominance.




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