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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... created to respond to a corporate globalization that was reducing the world to monocultures controlled by global corporations. We were in Seattle, and collectively stopped the WTO Ministerial in 1999. Yet new 'free trade' arrangements ...
... created to respond to a corporate globalization that was reducing the world to monocultures controlled by global corporations. We were in Seattle, and collectively stopped the WTO Ministerial in 1999. Yet new 'free trade' arrangements ...
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... creation myth is being put in place, where biotechnology corporations like Monsanto replace Creation as 'creators'. GMO means 'God move over'. Stewart Brand has actually said 'We are as gods and we had better get used to it.' Scientists ...
... creation myth is being put in place, where biotechnology corporations like Monsanto replace Creation as 'creators'. GMO means 'God move over'. Stewart Brand has actually said 'We are as gods and we had better get used to it.' Scientists ...
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... created superweeds and superpests. We are in the midst of an epic contest – the contest between the rights of Mother ... creating artificial volcanoes, fertilizing the oceans with iron filings, putting reflectors in the sky to stop the ...
... created superweeds and superpests. We are in the midst of an epic contest – the contest between the rights of Mother ... creating artificial volcanoes, fertilizing the oceans with iron filings, putting reflectors in the sky to stop the ...
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... created: Women and Life On Earth. WLOE still exists today. But the 'fathers of destruction' are incapable of learning, and they have short memories. They have not learned anything after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They have not learned ...
... created: Women and Life On Earth. WLOE still exists today. But the 'fathers of destruction' are incapable of learning, and they have short memories. They have not learned anything after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They have not learned ...
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... created a new colonialism based on development financing and debt burdens. The environment movement revealed the environmental and social costs generated by maldevelopment, conceived of and financed by these institutions. Protection of ...
... created a new colonialism based on development financing and debt burdens. The environment movement revealed the environmental and social costs generated by maldevelopment, conceived of and financed by these institutions. Protection of ...
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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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