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The book makes gender visible in the various ways water is dealt with, and questions how these ways affect gender and how gender affects the views on water. The connections between gender and water are multifaceted, contingent and heterogeneous. Through a rich offering of case studies, it identifies the multiple and changing relationships between the two, and notes some commonalities whilst gendering the use and management of water. The streams of hydrofeminisms converging in "Fluid Bonds" create a common terrain for the scholars and experts from the North and the South representing a wide range of methodological approaches, backgrounds and understandings, from where to reappraise water as a gendered substance. Collectively, the contributors consider the problematic fluidity and indefinite categories of gender and water, tracing the bonds as well as drawing out some differences, focusing on the gendered nature of water in life, of which women and men, at all times, constitute a part. Contents: Introduction (Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt) * Rights, Meanings and Discourses: Gender Dimensions of Water Rights in Diverging Regimes of Representation in the Andes (Margreet Zwarteveen and Rutgerd Boelens) * Economic Globalisation, Sustainability, Gender and Water (Julie Davidson and Elaine Stratford) * Changing Country, Telling Stories: Research Ethics, Methods and Empowerment in Working with Aboriginal Women (Richard Howitt and Sandra Suchet-Pearson) * Applying a Gender Lens to the Global Political Economy of the Right to Water (Deb Foskey) * Re-Sourcing the Sacredness of Water (Diana James) * Gendered Waters in Times and Places Gender, Water Rights and Irrigation in Nepal (Franz and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann) * Fishing for Power? Women in the Fishing Industry in Australia (Jane Dowling) * A Gender and Poverty Approach in Practice in Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Projects in Nepal (Michelle Moffatt and Umesh Pandey) * Women and Water: Perceptions and Priorities in Rural India (Anil C. Shah) * Women, Men and Water in Australian Backyards (Lesley Head and Pat Muir) * Risks, Responses and Rights: Gender Dimensions of Water Excess and Water Scarcity, Mekong Delta, Vietnam (Fiona Miller) * Gender and Participation in a Water Supply and Sanitation Project: Mekong Delta, Vietnam (Barbara Earth and Tran Tuan Anh) * Gender Implications of Water Management in Australian Agriculture (Margaret Alston) * Poverty and Gendered Livelihoods: Making Water Work (Bhawana Upadhyay) * Access to Water and Sanitation and the Willingness to Pay for Projects in Rural India (Priyodorshi Banerjee and S. Chandrasekhar) * Gender, Race and Rivers: Women and Water in Northwestern NSW (Heather Goodall) * Stella Mendoza: A 'Water warrior' in the Imperial Valley, California (Namika Raby) * Silent Partners: The Fluid Relationship between Women and Dammed Rivers in the Snowy Region of Australia (Robin Tennant-Wood) * Gender and Agricultural Productivity: Implications for the Revitalization of Smallholder Irrigation Schemes Program in Sekhukhune District, South Africa (Barbara van Koppen, Tshepo Khumbane, Mama de Lange and Ndileka Mohapi) * In the Running for Water Authority (Annie Bolitho) * Gendered Waters, Poisoned Wells: Political Ecology of the Arsenic Crisis in Bangladesh (Farhana Sultana) * Nadi o Nari: Representing the River and Women of the Rural Communities in the Bengal Delta (Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt) |