Forests of Pleasure and Pain: Gendered practices of labor and livelihood in the forests of the Kumaon Himalayas, India

摘要: This article examines the dominant gender and environment discourse in India argues that, so far, analyses of have pursued a utilitarian mechanistic understanding nature-society relationship. By focusing on gendered practices livelihood, narrated memories, oral accounts embodied pain pleasure forests Kumaon Himalayas, India, author discusses conceptual limitations that inform this for culturally geographically embedded relationships. It is argued places nature are not just biophysical entities, isolated from local, regional, global relations power, but dialectically constituted by local politics place, history, ecology constitutive social relations. In Kumaon, identities women through, always entwined with, everyday forest, specific notions proper behavior, 'good mothers,' 'dut...