CONTENTS:-
Section 1: Understanding Gender and Water Linkages
1. Gender and Water in South Asia: Revisiting Perspectives, Policies and Practice
2. Understanding Gendered Agency in Water Governance
Section 2: Gender, Water Laws and Policies
3. Gender, Water Laws and Policies: An Introduction
4. Decentralizing or Marginalizing Women: Gender Relations and Sector Reforms in India
5. The Right to Water in Different Discourses
6. Water Rights and Gender Rights: The Sri Lanka Experience
Section 3: Gender, Water Supply and Sanitation
7. Gender in Drinking Water and Sanitation: An Introduction
8. Sanitation for the Urban Poor: Gender Matters
9. Reducing a Community’s Water and Sanitation Burden: Insights from Maharashtra
10. Gendered Waters, Poisoned Wells: Political Ecology of the Arsenic Crisis in Bangladesh
11. Modern Water for Modern Women: Questioning the Relationship between Gender, Empowerment and Participation
Section 4: Gender, Water and Agrarian Change
12. Gender, Water and Agrarian Change: An Introduction
13. Groundwater Vending and Appropriation of Women’s Labour: Gender, Water Scarcity and Agrarian Change in a Gujarati Village, India
14. Highlighting the User in Waste Water Irrigation Research: Gender, Class and Caste Dynamics of Livelihoods near Hyderabad, India
Section 5: Gender and Water Technologies
15. Gender and Water Technologies: An Introduction
16. Farming Women and Irrigation Technology: Cases from Nepal
17. Gender and Water Technologies: Linking the Variables and Arsenic and Fluoride Mitigation
18. Perspectives on Gender and Large Dams
19. Large Water Control Mechanisms: Gender Impact of the Damodar Valley Corporation, India
Section 6: Strategies to Address Gendered Water Concerns
20. Strategies to Address Gendered Water Concerns: An Introduction
21. Improving Processes of Natural Resources Management at the Grassroots: The Case of the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA)
22. Thinking and Acting on Gender Issues: The Interface of Policy, Culture and Identity
23. Adopting a Gender Approach in a Water and Sanitation Project: The Case of the 4WS Project in Coastal Communities in South Asia
