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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... Scientists are now saying we have entered a new age, the Anthropocene age, the age in which our species, the human, is becoming the most significant force on the planet. Current climate change and species extinction are driven by human ...
... Scientists are now saying we have entered a new age, the Anthropocene age, the age in which our species, the human, is becoming the most significant force on the planet. Current climate change and species extinction are driven by human ...
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... scientists to do geoengineering, genetic engineering and synthetic biology as technological fixes to climate crisis, the food crisis and the energy crisis. However, they will only aggravate old problems and create new ones. We have ...
... scientists to do geoengineering, genetic engineering and synthetic biology as technological fixes to climate crisis, the food crisis and the energy crisis. However, they will only aggravate old problems and create new ones. We have ...
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... Scientists and the New Arms Race, Pluto Press, London, 1986. 2. Claudia von Werlhof, 'The Failure of Modern Civilization and the Struggle for a “Deep” Alternative: A Critical Theory of Patriarchy as a New Paradigm', in Beiträge zur ...
... Scientists and the New Arms Race, Pluto Press, London, 1986. 2. Claudia von Werlhof, 'The Failure of Modern Civilization and the Struggle for a “Deep” Alternative: A Critical Theory of Patriarchy as a New Paradigm', in Beiträge zur ...
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... scientist, from the feminist movement. One had looked at the capitalist world system from the perspective of the exploited people and nature of the South, the other had studied the same processes as they affect women from the viewpoint ...
... scientist, from the feminist movement. One had looked at the capitalist world system from the perspective of the exploited people and nature of the South, the other had studied the same processes as they affect women from the viewpoint ...
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... scientific development.'18 The clear inferences of this argument are: 1) that Third World farmers' labour has no value, while Western scientists' labour adds value; and 2) that value is measured only in Reductionism and Regeneration 31.
... scientific development.'18 The clear inferences of this argument are: 1) that Third World farmers' labour has no value, while Western scientists' labour adds value; and 2) that value is measured only in Reductionism and Regeneration 31.
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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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