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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... sexually abused children generate millions of dollars; why chickens are bred only for livers and wings; or why the Earth itself is manipulated as a weapon of war. Species loss is endemic; peak water is on the way; soils are losing ...
... sexually abused children generate millions of dollars; why chickens are bred only for livers and wings; or why the Earth itself is manipulated as a weapon of war. Species loss is endemic; peak water is on the way; soils are losing ...
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... sexual assault, as we found out during a series of public hearings on the impact of economic reforms on women organized by the National Commission on Women and the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology. Third, economic ...
... sexual assault, as we found out during a series of public hearings on the impact of economic reforms on women organized by the National Commission on Women and the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology. Third, economic ...
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... sexual assault. We need to continue the movement for social reforms required to guarantee safety, security and equality for women, building on the foundations laid during our independence movement and continued by the feminist movement ...
... sexual assault. We need to continue the movement for social reforms required to guarantee safety, security and equality for women, building on the foundations laid during our independence movement and continued by the feminist movement ...
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... sexual, ethnic, national, racial, cultural and religious difference as the basis for autonomy? Would we be accused of trying to create a new internationalism, under the banner of feminism and ecologism, when the old isms, particularly ...
... sexual, ethnic, national, racial, cultural and religious difference as the basis for autonomy? Would we be accused of trying to create a new internationalism, under the banner of feminism and ecologism, when the old isms, particularly ...
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... sexuality, and which depends on multiple systems of dominance and state power to have its way. 17 Wherever women acted against ecological destruction or /and the threat of atomic annihilation, they immediately became aware of the ...
... sexuality, and which depends on multiple systems of dominance and state power to have its way. 17 Wherever women acted against ecological destruction or /and the threat of atomic annihilation, they immediately became aware of the ...
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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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