EcofeminismBloomsbury Publishing, 2014 M03 13 - 360 páginas This groundbreaking work remains as relevant today as when it was when first published. Two of Zed's best-known authors argue that ecological destruction and industrial catastrophes constitute a direct threat to everyday life, the maintenance of which has been made the particular responsibility of women. In both industrialized societies and the developing countries, the new wars the world is experiencing, violent ethnic chauvinisms and the malfunctioning of the economy also pose urgent questions for ecofeminists. Is there a relationship between patriarchal oppression and the destruction of nature in the name of profit and progress? How can women counter the violence inherent in these processes? Should they look to a link between the women's movement and other social movements? Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva offer a thought-provoking analysis of these and many other issues from a unique North-South perspective. They critique prevailing economic theories, conventional concepts of women's emancipation, the myth of 'catching up' development, the philosophical foundations of modern science and technology, and the omission of ethics when discussing so many questions, including advances in reproductive technology and biotechnology. In constructing their own ecofeminist epistemology and methodology, these two internationally respected feminist environmental activists look to the potential of movements advocating consumer liberation and subsistence production, sustainability and regeneration, and they argue for an acceptance of limits and reciprocity and a rejection of exploitation, the endless commoditization of needs, and violence. |
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... called Green Revolution, and its ultimate devastation of food crops, soils and farmers' lives. Ecofeminism, co-authored with Mies, appeared in 1993. Others include Biopiracy, a co-edited reader on biotech in 1995; Water Wars in 2002 ...
... called Green Revolution, and its ultimate devastation of food crops, soils and farmers' lives. Ecofeminism, co-authored with Mies, appeared in 1993. Others include Biopiracy, a co-edited reader on biotech in 1995; Water Wars in 2002 ...
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... called free trade, consumerism and competitiveness. It means shifting to a focus on planetary and human well-being, to living economies, to living well, to not having more, to valuing cooperation rather than competitiveness. These are ...
... called free trade, consumerism and competitiveness. It means shifting to a focus on planetary and human well-being, to living economies, to living well, to not having more, to valuing cooperation rather than competitiveness. These are ...
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... called the inventors of the atom bomb the 'fathers of destruction'.1 We understood for the first time that modern science was indeed a 'brainchild' of such modern 'fathers of destruction'. To construct new machines they do not need ...
... called the inventors of the atom bomb the 'fathers of destruction'.1 We understood for the first time that modern science was indeed a 'brainchild' of such modern 'fathers of destruction'. To construct new machines they do not need ...
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... called civilized country. But the most important lesson was: you cannot understand an unbearable social situation unless you try to change it. We did not use the usual methodological tools to 'study' the issue of domestic violence ...
... called civilized country. But the most important lesson was: you cannot understand an unbearable social situation unless you try to change it. We did not use the usual methodological tools to 'study' the issue of domestic violence ...
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... called this paradigm capitalist patriarchy.2 Patriarchal civilization is the effort to solve one problem of the male gender, namely the fact that men cannot produce human life on their own. They are not the beginning. They cannot ...
... called this paradigm capitalist patriarchy.2 Patriarchal civilization is the effort to solve one problem of the male gender, namely the fact that men cannot produce human life on their own. They are not the beginning. They cannot ...
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Part 2 Subsistence v Development | 55 |
Part 3 The Search for Roots | 98 |
Part 4 Ecofeminism v New Areas of Investment through Biotechnology | 164 |
Part 5 Freedom for Trade or Freedom for Survival? | 218 |
Freedom v Liberalization | 251 |
Part 7 Conclusion | 297 |
Index | 325 |
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