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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... results and the powers it may come into conflict with. Critique takes the world, our world, as its object, so that we may develop new ways of making it. influence. is a step from critique toward the future, when effects begin to be felt ...
... results and the powers it may come into conflict with. Critique takes the world, our world, as its object, so that we may develop new ways of making it. influence. is a step from critique toward the future, when effects begin to be felt ...
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... result of man's innocent curiosity to understand nature, but, as with nuclear energy, biotechnology was invented to overcome the limits which nature had set to humans. And through the liberalization of the laws on patents, privatization ...
... result of man's innocent curiosity to understand nature, but, as with nuclear energy, biotechnology was invented to overcome the limits which nature had set to humans. And through the liberalization of the laws on patents, privatization ...
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... result in false perceptions of reality are criticized especially because they have led and lead to false strategies, mainly vis-a-vis the issue of equality, that is, of helping the oppressed and exploited to emerge from their parlous ...
... result in false perceptions of reality are criticized especially because they have led and lead to false strategies, mainly vis-a-vis the issue of equality, that is, of helping the oppressed and exploited to emerge from their parlous ...
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... resulting from the world market and of capitalist production processes. We also criticize the dualistic division between superstructure or culture and the economy or base. In our view, the preservation of the earth's diversity of life ...
... resulting from the world market and of capitalist production processes. We also criticize the dualistic division between superstructure or culture and the economy or base. In our view, the preservation of the earth's diversity of life ...
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... result of academic efforts, it did not arise in research institutes, it was not invented by a few gifted women scholars, but arose on the street, in countless women's groups, in which housewives, secretaries, students, and a few social ...
... result of academic efforts, it did not arise in research institutes, it was not invented by a few gifted women scholars, but arose on the street, in countless women's groups, in which housewives, secretaries, students, and a few social ...
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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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