Gender and disaster bibliography & reference guide – Volume 2
Through taking stock of the existing literature, this guide aims to facilitate the sharing of knowledge on the importance and the lessons learned of integrating gender studies in disaster risk reduction to support sustainable development. This Reference Guide is part of an ongoing project of the Centre for Gender and Disaster to compile the existing literature on Gender and Disaster and to share it with other disciplines and sectors. This is the second volume in a series of annotated bibliographies, and it provides some of the latest thought pieces and recent case studies to further the understanding of the gender and intersectional dimensions of Disaster Risk Reduction.
Both gender and intersectional approaches help the disaster community of practice to link vulnerabilities to risk and to issues of inequality, power and injustice. They further bring multiple, complex and important questions when working in humanitarian and development projects and contexts: How does violence and insecurity aggravate the vulnerability of poor urban and rural women in flood-prone areas? What are the dilemmas faced by men who break away from discriminatory social norms? How to best support women to claim their equal rights to earn an income, own their house or the land they cultivate so that they can better adapt to the impacts of climate change? Why is women’s menstruation still a taboo subject, even in the development sector? Why is it still so difficult to obtain gender-disaggregated data?