Women and disasters : from theory to practice / edited by Brenda D. Phillips and Betty Hearn Morrow.

"This is the third book in the series on disaster published with the support of the International Research Committee on Disasters." -- t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What's gender got to do with it? -- Invitation to a new feminist disaster sociology: integrating feminist theory and methods -- The intersection of gender and social class in disaster: balancing resilience and vulnerability -- Gender and disaster: a synthesis of flood research in Bangladesh -- Women, aging and post-disaster stress: risk factors for psychological morbidity -- Domestic violence after disaster: voices from the 1997 Grand Forks flood -- Women and housing issues in two US disasters: case studies from Hurricane Andrew and the Red River Valley flood -- Elderly female-headed households in the disaster loan process -- Professionalization and gender in local emergency management -- But she's a woman and this is a man's job.