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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... environmental destruction.' Wendy Harcourt, Development 'In view of the postmodern fashion for dismantling all ... environment.' Emma Crewe, Appropriate Technology 'Shiva and Mies offer an all-embracing vision. ... For all those ...
... environmental destruction.' Wendy Harcourt, Development 'In view of the postmodern fashion for dismantling all ... environment.' Emma Crewe, Appropriate Technology 'Shiva and Mies offer an all-embracing vision. ... For all those ...
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... environment. Her other titles published by Zed Books include The Lace Makers of Narsapur (1982), Women: The Last ... environmental leader and thinker, is director of the Research Foundation on Science, Technology, and Ecology. In 1993 ...
... environment. Her other titles published by Zed Books include The Lace Makers of Narsapur (1982), Women: The Last ... environmental leader and thinker, is director of the Research Foundation on Science, Technology, and Ecology. In 1993 ...
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... Environment: Women and Children Last Vandana Shiva 70 6 Who Made Nature Our Enemy? Maria Mies 91 Part 3 The Search for Roots 7 Homeless in the 'Global Village' Vandana Shiva 98 8 Masculinization of the Motherland Vandana Shiva 108 9 ...
... Environment: Women and Children Last Vandana Shiva 70 6 Who Made Nature Our Enemy? Maria Mies 91 Part 3 The Search for Roots 7 Homeless in the 'Global Village' Vandana Shiva 98 8 Masculinization of the Motherland Vandana Shiva 108 9 ...
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... environmental impacts of 'modernization' – a euphemism for the conversion of World War II technologies into profitable consumer items like nuclear energy or garden pesticides. An international literature of ecological feminism today ...
... environmental impacts of 'modernization' – a euphemism for the conversion of World War II technologies into profitable consumer items like nuclear energy or garden pesticides. An international literature of ecological feminism today ...
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... environmental crises are sex-gendered. Moreover, the book anticipates why each crisis has now energized new kinds of political resistance – youth, precarious workers, refugees from the geographical periphery. Today, labour is joined, if ...
... environmental crises are sex-gendered. Moreover, the book anticipates why each crisis has now energized new kinds of political resistance – youth, precarious workers, refugees from the geographical periphery. Today, labour is joined, if ...
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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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