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Mobilizing motherhood: The gendered burden of environmental protection
Sociology Compass ( IF 2.538 ) Pub Date : 2021-04-05 , DOI: 10.1111/soc4.12879
Elicia M Cousins 1
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Maternalist framing has been a consistent part of a long history of powerful, often successful organizing for environmental protection and justice. Yet today's calls on individuals to simultaneously engage in proenvironmental behavior and to protect themselves from environmental threats through consumption have mobilized maternal discourse in a way that is likely demobilizing in the long run. Indeed, the increasing individualization of the environmental movement is intersecting with persistent, unequal gendered structures of labor in a way that places the burden of environmentalism and environmental risk management on women and mothers. I argue that precautionary consumption and other forms of individualized environmental risk management add to the “third shift,” on top of the disproportionate burden of household labor and care work that women already face. This phenomenon is concerning because it has the potential to (1) limit women's engagement in other forms of environmental advocacy and leadership, and to (2) reproduce existing gender inequalities not only between men and women but also among women of different levels of race and class privilege. Thus, the increasing individualization of the environmental movement also potentially exacerbates environmental injustice at the household level. Despite such emerging concerns, the domestic scale remains an often overlooked site of environmental harm and gendered burden.

中文翻译:

动员母亲:环境保护的性别负担

母权主义框架一直是强大的、通常是成功的环境保护和正义组织的悠久历史的一部分。然而,今天呼吁个人同时参与环保行为并通过消费保护自己免受环境威胁,这动员了母性话语,从长远来看,这种话语很可能会复员。事实上,环境运动日益个性化与持久的、不平等的性别劳动结构相交叉,从而将环保主义和环境风险管理的负担置于妇女和母亲身上。我认为预防性消费和其他形式的个性化环境风险管理增加了“第三次转变,”除了女性已经面临的不成比例的家务劳动和照顾工作的负担。这种现象令人担忧,因为它有可能 (1) 限制女性参与其他形式的环境倡导和领导,以及 (2) 不仅再现男女之间存在的性别不平等,而且不同种族和阶级特权的妇女中。因此,环境运动日益个性化也可能加剧家庭层面的环境不公正。尽管出现了这些新问题,但国内规模仍然是环境损害和性别负担经常被忽视的地方。
更新日期:2021-05-13
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