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Abstract

This paper speculates on three issues about the relationship between women and water, focusing on the context of South Australia, a particularly dry part of the world. First, it is suggested that gender affects our connections to environmental resources, in this instance to water. Second, it is noted that currently unexamined archival material exists for the South Australian situation and that the analysis of this material may shed light on the relationship between gender and environmental resources. Third, it is possible to argue that the conflation of nature and the feminine through such things as tropic devices in language results in both being constituted largely as corporeal, as bodies requiring management. Such a possibility suggests that a body politics exists in environmental studies and related disciplines that requires further theoretical work.

Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Stratford, E
Keywords:	women; water; environmental resources; South Australia; history; body politics
Journal or Publication Title:	Gender, Place and Culture
ISSN:	0966-369X
DOI / ID Number:	10.1080/09663699550022026
Additional Information:	The definitive version is available online at http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content?
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