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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... communities safe. From the Chipko forest dwellers of North India some 300 years ago to the mothers of coalmining Appalachia right now, the struggle to create life-affirming societies goes on. It intensifies today as corporate ...
... communities safe. From the Chipko forest dwellers of North India some 300 years ago to the mothers of coalmining Appalachia right now, the struggle to create life-affirming societies goes on. It intensifies today as corporate ...
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... communities report an 800 per cent increase in attacks on women. But the authors' most powerful deconstructive lens is applied to the 'reductionism' of contemporary science, a dogma that is deeply informed by old patriarchal motivations ...
... communities report an 800 per cent increase in attacks on women. But the authors' most powerful deconstructive lens is applied to the 'reductionism' of contemporary science, a dogma that is deeply informed by old patriarchal motivations ...
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... communities struggling against the nuclear power plant in Kudankulam. A privatized corporate state must rapidly become a police state. This is why politicians surround themselves with ever-increasing security, diverting the police from ...
... communities struggling against the nuclear power plant in Kudankulam. A privatized corporate state must rapidly become a police state. This is why politicians surround themselves with ever-increasing security, diverting the police from ...
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... communities as 'wasted'. They would like to appropriate the living wealth of the planet for making biofuels, chemicals and plastics. This will dispossess the poor of the very sources of their lives and livelihoods. The instruments for ...
... communities as 'wasted'. They would like to appropriate the living wealth of the planet for making biofuels, chemicals and plastics. This will dispossess the poor of the very sources of their lives and livelihoods. The instruments for ...
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... communities, peasants, women and young people in new movements such as the Indignants in Europe and Occupy Wall Street in the USA. This involves working as co-creators and co-producers with the Earth. This demands using our intelligence ...
... communities, peasants, women and young people in new movements such as the Indignants in Europe and Occupy Wall Street in the USA. This involves working as co-creators and co-producers with the Earth. This demands using our intelligence ...
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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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