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This reader provides a collection of key articles published on gender and forests over the last thirty years.

The Earthscan Reader on Gender and Forests

1. Introduction to Gender and Forests: Themes, Contents and Gaps  Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Marlene Elias, Susan Hummel and Bimbika Sijapati Basnett  Part 1: Global Conceptual, Epistemological and Methodological Analyses  2. Earth Mother Myths and other Ecofeminist Fables: How a Strategic Notion Rose and Fell  Melissa Leach  3. In Theory and in Practice: Women Creating Better Accounts of the World  Louise Fortmann  4. On Communication Among 'Unequals'  Carol J. Pierce Colfer  5. Discordant Connections: Discourses on Gender and Grassroots Activism in Two Forest Communities in India and Sweden  Seema Arora-Jonsson  Part 2: Knowledge, Community Forestry and Grouping in South Asia  6. A Feminist in the Forest: Situated Knowledges and Mixing Methods in Natural Resource Management  Andrea Nightingale  7. The Hidden Side of Group Behaviour: A Gender Analysis of Community Forestry in South Asia  Bina Agarwal  Part 3: Agroforestry, Tenure and Conceptual Framing in Africa  8. Shady Practice: Gender and the Political Ecology of Resource Stabilization in Gambian Garden/orchards  Richard A. Schroeder  9. African Shea Butter: A Feminized Subsidy from Nature  Marlene Elias and Judith Carney  Part 4: Conjugal Relations, Migration, and Forest-based Livelihoods in Southeast Asia  10. Working Separately but Eating Together: Personhood, Property, and Power in Conjugal Relations  Tania Li  11. Migrant Pathways to Resource Access in Lampung's Political Forest: Gender, Citizenship and Creative Conjugality  Rebecca Elmhirst  Part 5: Forested Landscapes and Farming in Latin America  12. Masculine and Feminine Exchanges Working to (Re)Produce or Degrade Andean Silvopasture Systems  Susan Paulson  13. Trees as Tools, Trees as Text: Struggles over Resources in Zambrana-Chacuey, Dominican Republic  Dianne Rocheleau and Laurie Ross  Part 6: A Glimpse of Gender Systems in 'the North'  14. Marginality and Gender at Work in Forestry Communities of British Columbia, Canada  Maureen G. Reed  15. The Politics of Invasive Weed Management: Gender, Race, and Risk Perception in Rural California  Kari M. Norgaard  Part 7: Learning and Building on the Classics  16. Concluding Reflections for the Future  Bimbika Sijapati Basnett, Marlene Elias, Susan Stevens Hummel and Carol J. Pierce Colfer