Women Confronting Natural Disaster: From Vulnerability to Resilience : from vulnerability to resilience

Natural disasters push ordinary gender disparities to the extreme - leaving women not only to deal with a catastrophe's aftermath, but also at risk for greater levels of domestic violence, displacement, and other threats to their security and well-being. Elaine Enarson presents a comprehensive assessment, encompassing both theory and practice, of how gender shapes disaster vulnerability and resilience.