ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author analyses the gender aspects of sustainable consumption, between explicit and implicit gender dimensions. The most relevant actors in the project of achieving sustainable levels of consumption are, first, the economic players who, in their capacity as producers, decide which products will be introduced to the market and how they will be manufactured and designed. Most empirical findings on gender and sustainable consumption are available at the individual level. The way that responsibilities are assigned in the sustainable consumption literature has been widely criticized from a feminist perspective. With reference to feminist theorist Sandra Harding, the author draws together the individual and structural levels of gender as explicit gender dimensions. She combine these three levels of gender analysis and refer to them as having an 'explicit' or 'implicit' gender dimension; the first two encompass individual and structural gender dimensions, the last one the symbolic-conceptual level.
