Women's Voices from the Rainforest

Download or read book Women's Voices from the Rainforest written by Janet Gabriel Townsend and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-05 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's Voices from the Rainforest explores the position of the women whose families are tearing down the rainforest. These women of Central and Latin America have been largely invisible until now, but they are at last turning their voices into action. International development policy and its top-down culture must take much of the blame for environmental and social destruction of the rainforest. Presenting the contrasting results of different methodologies, a comprehensive literature review, and the voices of the rainforest women themselves, told in life histories, the authors argue for the adoption of "grassroots" strategies, not international solutions.