Abstract:Concepts used to understand and analyze two closely related fields—gender and development and gender, disaster, and climate change—overlap in the ways gender is implicated and women are targeted. This article explores the overlapping conceptual language that characterizes these fields to demonstrate how they emerge from feminist scholarship and converge in the project to promote social change for the realization of human rights for women. Terms like equality, mainstreaming, empowerment, resilience, agency, sus… Show more
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