Download or read book Women in the Oil Zones written by Maryse Helbert and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis examines the gender implications of oil extraction in developing countries using an ecofeminist approach. The unequal distribution of risks and benefits of the oil project between men and women is studied by demonstrating the virtues of an ecofeminist framework in highlighting the many ways in which women's oppression in the oil extraction zones has a complex set of causes, including environmental degradation and violence against women. Oil zones in three cases are studied: Nigeria, Venezuela and the Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline. The thesis also identifies opportunities and spaces for emancipation. In particular, the work of the World Bank on women and the oil sector, which seeks to fence off the oil curse, and the gendered distribution of the risks and benefits of the oil project, are singled out as a promising site of transformation.