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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... example, Ecofeminism explains how both financial and 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 ...
... example, Ecofeminism explains how both financial and 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 ...
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... examples of how humans have destabilized the climate system of our self-regulated planet, which has given us a stable climate for the past 10,000 years. Humans have pushed 75 per cent of agricultural biodiversity to extinction because ...
... examples of how humans have destabilized the climate system of our self-regulated planet, which has given us a stable climate for the past 10,000 years. Humans have pushed 75 per cent of agricultural biodiversity to extinction because ...
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... example, the Green Revolution destroyed biodiversity, water resources, soil fertility and even the atmosphere, with 40 per cent of greenhouse gases coming from industrialized, globalized agriculture. The second Green Revolution has led ...
... example, the Green Revolution destroyed biodiversity, water resources, soil fertility and even the atmosphere, with 40 per cent of greenhouse gases coming from industrialized, globalized agriculture. The second Green Revolution has led ...
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... example of violence against nature, people and future generations is the restructuring of the whole world economy according to the principles of neoliberalism: globalization, liberalization, privatization and universal competition ...
... example of violence against nature, people and future generations is the restructuring of the whole world economy according to the principles of neoliberalism: globalization, liberalization, privatization and universal competition ...
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... example: against atomic power plants in Germany, 1 against chalk mining and logging in the Himalayas; 2 the activities of the Green Belt Movement in Kenya; 3 and of Japanese women against food pollution by chemically-stimulated ...
... example: against atomic power plants in Germany, 1 against chalk mining and logging in the Himalayas; 2 the activities of the Green Belt Movement in Kenya; 3 and of Japanese women against food pollution by chemically-stimulated ...
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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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