Recently added articles from Women & Environments International Magazine:
WE Resources
Oct 01, 2008; ... Selected Print Resources on Women and Toxins Brown, Phil and Ferguson, Faith. Making a Big Stink: Women's Work, Women's Relationships, and Toxic Waste Activism. Gender and Society. Vol. 9 No. 2 145-172 1995 Blanc, Paul David. How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home ...
THE BELOVED COMMUNITY
Oct 01, 2008; ... THE BELOVED COMMUNITY A film by Pamela Calvert/Plain Speech Productions, 2006 Review by Beverley Thorpe When I was a Greenpeace campaigner working on toxic chemical campaigns in the 1980s, I saw and smelled stinking effluents from factories, and tracked hazardous waste ...
Knowing What Hurts Us: The Gray Area of Toxics Research
Oct 01, 2008; ... Many industrial chemicals widely used in our society are potentially hazardous to women and their children. In California work has been underway to ban one group of chemicals which potentially cause serious health problems including neuro-toxic effects: fire retardants known as PBDEs ...
B.C. Politics Rap
Oct 01, 2008; ... Activists Talking: Hey there, ya'll. We got something to say about breast cancer. Did you know another woman in this country dies every 12 minutes? And sometime in her life, one in seven women will get breast cancer? That ain't right. Worse still, too many people are making too much money off ...
The Exposure of Bedouin Women to Waste Related Hazards: Gender, Toxins and Multiple Marginality in The Negev (Israel)
Oct 01, 2008; ... Traditional semi-nomadic pastoralist Bedouin lifestyles generated little waste that was hazardous or non-organic. As Bedouin adopted more sedentary and westernized lifestyles, however, the nature of their consumption changed, generating volumes and kinds of waste that require organized disposal ....