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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... struggle to create life-affirming societies goes on. It intensifies today as corporate globalization expands and contracts, leaving no stone unturned, no body unused. The partnership of Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva symbolizes this ...
... struggle to create life-affirming societies goes on. It intensifies today as corporate globalization expands and contracts, leaving no stone unturned, no body unused. The partnership of Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva symbolizes this ...
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... struggle for justice for women, we need to also ask why rape cases have increased 240 per cent since the 1990s when the new economic policies were introduced. Could there be a connection between the growth of violent, undemocratically ...
... struggle for justice for women, we need to also ask why rape cases have increased 240 per cent since the 1990s when the new economic policies were introduced. Could there be a connection between the growth of violent, undemocratically ...
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... struggling against the nuclear power plant in Kudankulam. A privatized corporate state must rapidly become a police state. This is why politicians surround themselves with ever-increasing security, diverting the police from their ...
... struggling against the nuclear power plant in Kudankulam. A privatized corporate state must rapidly become a police state. This is why politicians surround themselves with ever-increasing security, diverting the police from their ...
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... struggle and practice. Through a worldwide network of like-minded women we learned about their methods of protest, their successes and their failures. Like the women of Greenham Common in England we blockaded American missile bases in ...
... struggle and practice. Through a worldwide network of like-minded women we learned about their methods of protest, their successes and their failures. Like the women of Greenham Common in England we blockaded American missile bases in ...
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... struggle. For me, the lessons learned during this struggle were fundamental. I first learned how widespread and how inhumane violence against women was in Germany, a so-called civilized country. But the most important lesson was: you ...
... struggle. For me, the lessons learned during this struggle were fundamental. I first learned how widespread and how inhumane violence against women was in Germany, a so-called civilized country. But the most important lesson was: you ...
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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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