With the special focus on “gender power” in the global south, the new book The Remaking of Social Contracts: Feminists in a Fierce New World raises the question of structural inequalities both in governmental approaches and non-governmental methods towards empowering women. Connecting the dots between climate change and consumption habits, Sefin Teferra, a PhD Candidate in Gender Studies at SOAS, University of London and a writer for Development Alternatives for Women in a New Era (DAWN), is highly critical of neo-liberal state where common natural resources like water and food get privatized and women’s unpaid work is not recognized. Finally, Teferra highlights the absence of women’s groups demanding climate justice and urges the reader to see women as active participants of development, not as victims.
