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Reference Guide on Gender and Disaster Series

Reference Guide Volume 1
The first volume of this series provides some of the essential readings to support an introduction to readers who may be new to this area of study (please note this is the 2nd edition)

Reference Guide Volume 2
The second volume includes more references on the nexus gender-disaster-conflict, and covers themes such as health, wellbeing, livelihoods and rights.

GRRIPP Reference Guide
This guide compiles ‘alternative’ references i.e. references that scholars might not necessarily expect to come across when reading about Resilience or Infrastructure for instance.

Gender & Sexual Minorities in DRR
This guide aims to disseminate and promote the significance of the knowledge learnt from incorporating gender and sexual minority studies into disaster risk reduction.
Note: Our database is continually updated and constantly growing. However, we rely on volunteers to do this work, and there are still many entries we haven't managed to upload yet! We welcome feedback and suggestions for new materials to be added. Please email these and any additional resources to us.
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Gênero, Classe e Raça: Interseccionalidade e Consubstancialidade das Relações Sociais.
Hirata, H.
Brazil
Leave No One Behind: Transgender Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction.
IndoGlobal Social Service Society.
[unspecified]
The Combahee River Collective Statement: Black Feminist Organizing in the Seventies and Eighties, Black Feminism Lives!
Combahee River Collective.
United States of America
1986
Can the Subaltern Speak? In G. Nelson & L. Grossberg (Eds.), Marxism and Interpretation of Culture
Spivak, G.C.
[unspecified]
1988
Demarginalizing the intersection of race and sex: A black feminist critique of antidiscrimination doctrine, feminist theory and antiracist politics.
Crenshaw, K.
United States of America
1989
Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color.
Crenshaw, K.
United States of America
1991
Contradictions in the Gender Subtext of the War on Poverty: The Community Work and Resistance of Women from Low Income Communities.
Naples, N.
United States of America
1991
Decolonising the mind: The politics of language in African literature.
Wa Thiong'o, N.,
[unspecified]
1992
Decolonising the mind: The politics of language in African literature.
Wa Thiong'o, N.,
[unspecified]
1992
The Continuum of Violence Against Women: Psychological and Physical Consequences.
Leidig, M.W.
[unspecified]
1992
Social, cultural, and psychological impacts of the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
Palinkas, L., Downs, M., Petterson, J., & Russell, J.
United States of America
1993
Gender Differences in Reported Stress Response to the Loma Preita Earthquake
Anderson, K. M. & Manuel, G.
United States of America
1994
The needs of women in disasters and emergencies
Wiest, R. E., Mocellin, J. S., & Motsisi, D. T.
[unspecified]
1994
From “Social Justice and the City” to Women-Friendly Cities? Feminist Theory and Politics.
England, K.
[unspecified]
1994
Understanding the Disaster-Development Continuum: Gender Analysis is the Essential Tool
Anderson, M.
[unspecified]
1994
Dealing with Difference: A politics of Ideas or Politics of Presence?
Phillips, A.
[unspecified]
1994
Gender Difference in Human Loss and Vulnerability in Natural Disasters: A Case Study from Bangladesh.
Ikeda, K.
Bangladesh
1995
Women and disability don't mix!': Double discrimination and disabled women's rights.
Habib, L.A.,
[unspecified]
1995
The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses
Oyewumi, O.
[unspecified]
1997
The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses
Oyewumi, O.
[unspecified]
1997
Back to Normal: Gender and Disaster. Symbolic Interaction
Always, J. Belgrabe, L. & Smith, K.J
United States of America
1998
Dalit women talk differently: A critique of „difference’ and towards a Dalit feminist standpoint position.
Rege, S
[unspecified]
1998
What women do in wartime: Gender and conflict in Africa.
Turshen, M., & Twagiramariya, C.
[unspecified]
1998
Women, Health and Humanitarian Aid in Conflict.
Palmer, C. A. & Zwi, A. B.
[unspecified]
1998
Managing Difference: Gender and culture in humanitarian emergencies.
Hyndman, J.
[unspecified]
1998
The gendered terrain of disaster: Through women's eyes
Enarson, E., & Morrow, B.
[unspecified]
1998
The intersection of Gender and Social Class in Disaster: Balancing Resilience and Vulnerability
Fordham, M.
Australia
1999
Gender Patterns in Flood Evacuation: A Case Study in Canada's Red River Valley.
Enarson, E. & Scanlon, J.
Canada
1999
Violence against women in disasters: a study of domestic violence programs in the US and Canada.
Enarson, E.
Canada
1999
Gender differences in psychological distress, coping, social support and related variables following the 1995 Dinal (Turkey) earthquake
Karanci, N.A., Alkan, N., Aksit, B., Sucuoglu, H. and Balta, E.,
Turkey
1999
Violence against women in disasters: a study of domestic violence programs in the US and Canada.
Enarson, E.
United States of America
1999
Gender and Earthquake Preparedness: A Research Study of Gender Issues in Disaster Management: Differences in Earthquake Preparedness Due to Traditional Stereotyping or Cognitive Appraisal of The area?
J.P. Mulilis
United States of America
1999
Women's Roles in a Disaster. Applied Behavioural Science Review
Fothergill, A.
United States of America
1999
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present
Spivak, G.C.
[unspecified]
1999
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present.
Spivak, G.C.
[unspecified]
1999
Little Gender Handbook for Emergencies or Just Plain Common Sense
Clifton, D
[unspecified]
1999
Gender and Drought: Experiences of Australian Women in the Drought of the 1990s.
Stehlik, D. Lawrence, G. & Gray, I.
Australia
2000
We Will Make Meaning Out of This: Women's Cultural Responses to the Red River Valley Flood.
Enarson, E.
United States of America
2000
Lines that Divide, Ties that bind: Race, Class, and Gender in Women's Flood recovery in the US and UK
Enarson, E. and Fordham, M.
United States of America
2000
States of Conflict: Gender, Violence and Resistance.
Jacobson, R. Jacobs, S. & Marchbank, J.
[unspecified]
2000
Women, Violence and Strategies for Action: Feminist research, Policy and Practice .
Radford, J. Harne, L. & Friedberg, M.
[unspecified]
2000
La colonialidad del saber: eurocentrismo y ciencias sociales Perspectivas latinoamericanas
Lander, E. Org.
[unspecified]
2000
Gender and HIV/AIDS: what do men have to do with it?.
Mane, P. and Aggleton, P.,
[unspecified]
2001
The Gendered Continuum of Violence and Conflict: An Operational Frame- work, in C.O.N. Moser and F.C. Clark (eds.) Victims, Perpetrators or Actors? Gender, Armed Conflict and Political Violence.
Moser, C.O.N.
[unspecified]
2001
From women's needs to women's rights in disasters Global Environmental Change Part B: Environmental Hazards
Enarson, E. & Fordham, M
[unspecified]
2001
Gender, Peace and Conflict.
Skjelsbæk, I., Smith, D, & International Peace Research Institute.
[unspecified]
2001
From women's needs to women's rights in disasters.
Enarson, E. and Fordham, M.
[unspecified]
2001
Views from the urban fringe: Habitat, quality of life and gender in Santiago, Chile.
Fadda, G., Jirón, P. and Allen, A.,
Chile
2002
Black feminist thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment.
Collins, P.H.,
United States of America
2002
Gender and Conflict Early Warning: A Framework for Action.
Shmeidl, S., & Lopez, L.,
[unspecified]
2002
Resisting Vulnerability: The Social Reconstruction of Gender in Interaction.
Hollander, Jocelyn.
[unspecified]
2002
Women's Roles in Conflict Prevention, Conflict Resolution and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Literature Review and Institutional Analysis.
Bouta, T. and Frerks, G.
[unspecified]
2002
Gender and the Social and Economic Impact of Drought on the Residents of Turkana District in Kenya.
Wawire, V.
Kenya
2003
Gender Dimensions in Disaster Management: A Guide for South Asia
Ariyabandu, M.M. & Wickramasinghe, M.
[unspecified]
2003
“Under Western Eyes: Feminist scholarship and colonial discourses,” , In Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity.
Mohanty, C.H.
[unspecified]
2003
The ‘engendering’ of poverty analysis in developing regions: Progress since the United Nations decade for women, and priorities for the future
Chant, S.
[unspecified]
2003
The rise of rights: Rights-based approaches to international development.
Eyben, R.
[unspecified]
2003
Under Western Eyes: Feminist scholarship and colonial discourses
Mohanty, C.H.
[unspecified]
2003
Doing the Rights Thing: Rights-based development and Latin American NGOs.
Molyneux, M. and S. Lazar.
[unspecified]
2003
Quota Legislation and the Election of Women: Learning from the Costa Rican Experience.
Jones, M. P.
Costa Rica
2004
Men, male sexuality and HIV/AIDS: Reflections from studies in rural and urban East Africa.
Silberschmidt, M.,
[unspecified]
2004
International perspectives on gender and disaster: differences and possibilities.
Enarson, E. & Meyreles, L.
[unspecified]
2004
The rights-based approach to development: potential for change or more of the same?
Tsikata D.
[unspecified]
2004
Impact of the Tsunami on reproductive health
Carballo, M., Hernandez, M., Schneider, K., & Welle, E.
Multiple
2005
Gender and Conflict in Africa: An Annotated Bibliography.
Vavra, J., and Morton, A.,
[unspecified]
2005
Rights-based approaches and bilateral aid agencies: more than a metaphor?
Piron, L.
[unspecified]
2005
Gender, conflict, and peacekeeping.
Mazurana, D. Raven-Roberts, A. & Parpart, J.
[unspecified]
2005
Gender and Humanitarian Aid; A literature Review of Policy and Practice.
Van Dijkhorst, H. Vonhof, S.
[unspecified]
2005
Mainstreaming Gender in Development: a critical review. Has gender made a difference after 10 years?
Porter, F. and Sweetman, C.
[unspecified]
2005
