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Embodied intersections: Gender, water and sanitation in Cameroon

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Thompson, Jennifer A., Gaskin, Susan J., Agbor, Magdaline·2017·Agenda
DOI 10.1080/10130950.2017.1341158
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A cornerstone of feminist thinking, intersectionality offers a critical analytical tool for exploring how gender intersects with other social structures of power. However, this leaves intersectionality grounded firmly in social analysis. Becoming increasingly salient are the complex political and material relations between social power, infrastructure and water (Linton and Budds, 2014). Intersectionality – centring the entanglement of difference – offers an opportunity to explore the interplay between social relations and difference in the physical world (Thompson, 2016). Drawing on participatory visual research with women and men across four communities in Cameroon, we elaborate how gendered social relations intersect with the material dimensions of water and sanitation. Given gendered and age-based divisions of labour, women and girls play a primary role in household water management. This article centres on women’s concerns about everyday water access, use and control to elaborate how intersectional social dynamics in relation to water also intersect with water in the physical world. Expanding intersectional thinking beyond the social realm, we also demonstrate how gendered intersections shape and are shaped by the material and physical dimensions of water. This suggests that theorising about social difference alone risks missing how environmental factors influence different groups’ experiences of power, privilege and oppression.

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  • Inadequate water provision and collection behaviors were reported to influence intimate partner violence, including violence from husbands for not providing water for bathing, not having water in the home, going to cleaner water sources considered too far, not preparing food on time, or attending water-focused community meetings.

    “Inadequate water provision and collection behaviors were reported to influence intimate partner violence [26,75,101,108,111,153,165,179,198,231,260,264,266].Women reported violence from husbands if they did not provide water for bathing needs (Kenya, [198] Ethiopia, [108] Vietnam, [111] Cameroon [231]), did not have water in the home (East Africa [179]), went to cleaner water sources considered”

    From Water, sanitation, and women’s empowerment: A systematic review and qualitative metasynthesis (2022) · cites this paper as [231]

  • Related to water, walking long distances and collecting from certain sources reportedly exposed women and girls to sexual violence, particularly as men studied women's patterns.

    “Related to water, walking long distances and collecting from certain sources reportedly exposed women and girls to sexual violence, [76,153,179,231,258,259] particularly as men studied women's patterns [179].”

    From Water, sanitation, and women’s empowerment: A systematic review and qualitative metasynthesis (2022) · cites this paper as [231]

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  1. Braun, B 2009, "Nature," in N Castree, D Demeritt, D Liverman & B Rhoads (eds.), 'A Companion to Environmental Geography,' Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, pp. 19-36).
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Authors
Thompson, J. A., Gaskin, S. J., & Agbor, M.
Affiliations
McGill University (CA)
ORCID
Venue
Agenda
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2017-01-02
Volume
31
Issue
1
Pages
140-155
ISSN
  • 1013-0950 (ISSN-L)
  • 2158-978X
DOI
10.1080/10130950.2017.1341158
OpenAlex
W2736209800
Cited by
14
References
38
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 3
FWCI
5.32
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by-nc
Locations
  • Agenda (publishedVersion)
  • eScholarship@McGill (McGill) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • Durham Research Online (Durham University) (submittedVersion)
  • Durham Research Online (Durham University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Water Governance and Infrastructure
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Water Science and Technology › Water Resource Management and Quality
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Gender, Health, and Social Inequality
Keywords
intersectionality, gender, water, sanitation, household water access, embodied experience, infrastructure, power and privilege, Cameroon

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