People, Spaces and Places in Gendered Environments

Vasilikie (Vicky) Demos is Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Minnesota Morris, USA. She has received various awards, including the Harriet Martineau Sociological Society Annual Award and the UMM Distinguished Research Award.Marcia Texler Segal is Professor of Sociology and Dean for Research Emerita, Indiana University Southeast, USA, and Co-Chair of the Feminist Development sub-section of the American Sociological Association Section on Development.

• People, Spaces and Places in Gendered Environments: An Introduction; Marcia Texler Segal and Vasilikie (Vicky) Demos Part 1. Urban Environments Chapter 1. Women and Public Space in late-1980s Athens, Greece: Reflections on Gender, Space and Future Cities; Christina Marouli Chapter 2. Nel Gasometro: A Gender Perspective on the Ostiense District of Rome; Marzia D’Amico Part 2. Workplace Environments Chapter 3. Recent Asian Immigrant Women Scholars in STEM Fields: A Study of Gender and Environment Impacts on their Career Pathways; Dao T. Nguyen Chapter 4. Workplace Environment for Gender Equality and Sustainable Career Planning: The Case of Bangladesh; Lubaba Basharat and Md Jahangir Alam Chapter 5. Indoor Sex Workers in Punjab: A Qualitative Enquiry; Rachana Sharma Part 3. Ecofeminisms Chapter 6. My First Environmentalist; Clara E. Rodríguez Chapter 7. Indigenous Women and Climate Change in the Colombian Amazon; K. Lorena Romero Leal and Julián Neira Carreño Chapter 8. Ecofeminist Ecospirituality: Manifestations of Queerness and Gender in (re)connecting with nature and the non-human world; Asmae Ourkiya, Todd Jared LeVasseur, and Paul M. Pulé

As a member of the oldest environmental organization in the United States, the Sierra Club (founded in 1892), I am especially pleased to endorse this important work about how the climate crisis is affecting women. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change found that 80% of displaced persons are women. Examining natural and built environments in their physical, social-psychological, and spiritual manifestations, [this volume] provides a broad view of the relationship between gender and environments.