Women and Disasters

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The International Research Committee on Disasters is pleased to announce the newest publication in its book series, Women and Disasters: From Theory to Practice Edited by Brenda D. Phillips and Betty Hearn Morrow. FORWARD -- Joe Scanlon 1 WHAT'S GENDER GOT TO DO WITH IT? -- Brenda D. Phillips, Betty Hearn Morrow 2 INVITATION TO A NEW FEMINIST DISASTER SOCIOLOGY: Integrating feminist theory and methods -- Elaine Enarson, Brenda D. Phillips 3 THE INTERSECTION OF GENDER AND SOCIAL CLASS IN DISASTER: Balancing resilience and vulnerability -- Maureen Fordham 4 GENDER AND DISASTER: A synthesis of flood research in Bangladesh William E. Lovekamp 5 WOMEN, AGING AND POST-DISASTER STRESS: Risk factors for psychological morbidity -- Jane C. Ollenburger, Graham Tobin 6 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AFTER DISASTER: Voices from the 1997 Grand Forks flood Alice Fothergill 7 WOMEN AND HOUSING ISSUES IN TWO U.S. DISASTERS: Case studies from Hurricane Andrew and the Red River Valley flood -- Elaine Enarson 8 ELDERLY FEMALE-HEADED HOUSEHOLDS IN THE DISASTER LOAN PROCESS Cheryl D. Childers 9 PROFESSIONALIZATION AND GENDER IN LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT Jennifer Wilson, Arthur Oyola-Yemaiel 10 BUT SHE'S A WOMAN AND THIS IS A MAN'S JOB: Lessons for participatory research and participatory recovery -- Richard L. Krajeski and Kristina J. Peterson Women and Disasters: From Theory to Practice can be purchased directly from Xlibris Corporation by visiting: www.xlibris.com/WomenandDisasters.html All Royalties benefit the International Research Committee on Disasters (IRCD). The IRCD is a nonprofit organization dedicated to social science inquiry on various aspects of disasters. As an official research committee of the International Sociological Association, the IRCD strives to promote interdisciplinary work worldwide. With members in over 30 nations, the IRCD represents the world's most significant body of researchers involved in the study of socio-behavioral and organizational related to mass emergencies. The IRCD publishes the International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, the world's longest-published journal in the field. For more information, visit http://www.usc.edu/schools/sppd/ijmed/about.php. Previous issues of the journal (except for the last three years which require a membership) may be accessed freely at http://www.ijmed.org. Dedication: this book has been dedicated to Verta Taylor and Mary Fran Myers, whose bodies of work have inspired considerable examination of the issues of gender in disaster contexts and prompted change designed to improve life safety for women and children.