Gender, class and water: Women and the politics of water service in Monterray, Mexico

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dc.contributor.authorBennett, V.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialMonterreyen
dc.coverage.spatialMexicoen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T19:30:56Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T19:30:56Zen
dc.date.issued1995en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractThis article analyzes the role played by gender and class in the history of water supplies in Monterrey, Mexico. The author starts with a brief historical overview, highlighting the impact of water services on poor urban women, and women's social activism. History shows that poor women used phone calls, meetings, obstruction of streets, and even holding water services employees' hostage, as a form of protest. It was said that the most effective forms of protests were the most disruptive ones. Protests had impacts in local levels but also at the national level. The most visible result was in 1984 when the federal government approved the 'water for all' program.en
dc.format.mimetypetext/plainen
dc.identifier3232en
dc.identifier.citationLatin American Perspectives 22(2): 76-99en
dc.identifier.issn0094582Xen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/67366en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherThousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.en
dc.relation.urihttp://lap.sagepub.com/content/vol22/issue2/en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderCopyright 1995 Latin American Perspectivesen
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectWomenen
dc.subjectWateren
dc.subjectWater policyen
dc.subjectPovertyen
dc.subjectGenderen
dc.subjectClassen
dc.subjectPoor womenen
dc.titleGender, class and water: Women and the politics of water service in Monterray, Mexicoen
dc.typeAbstracten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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