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Writing after a major Australian flood, an observer noted that women's concerns after the flood were ''an extreme version of what they did before the flood'' (Dobson, 1994, p. 11). Child care, domestic labor, employment and community work all increased, as did violence against women and strain on caregiving networks. ''Human relationships were laid bare and the strengths and weaknesses in relationships came more sharply into focus.'' As violation of women's rights is also more stark when catastrophic events transform physical and social worlds, we make a practical and a political case for explicitly addressing gender equality in the Treaty on human rights to disaster assistance proposed by Wisner and others in the preceding papers.
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Note: This bibliography was compiled by Elaine Enarson with preference to accessible Englishlanguage publications that directly address gender relations in the construction of disaster risk and the social experience of disaster events. Submissions are warmly welcomed as the bibliography is updated annually for the Gender and Disaster Network.
Are Women Both Risk And Resource In Disaster Management?"
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