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Ecofeminism

Vandana Shiva (Author), Maria Mies (Author)
This impressive book celebrates the coming together of two well-known critics of Western philosophy and science. From their respective backgrounds in social science and physics, Maria Mies and VAndana Shiva write about the concerns which unite them as women. Theirs is a powerful critique of the emnacipatory ideas of the Enlightenment, which measured civilizationin terms of domination of Nature. They argue that feminism should see linkages between patriarchal opression and the destruction of Nature in the name of profit and progress. Women - in many parts of the world the principal farmers, food-providers, and nurturers of children - are the hardest hit by technological excess and environmental degradation. Through examining issues such as the growth of new reproductive technologies, 'development', indigenous knowledge, globalization, and the concepts of freedom and self-determination, teh authors provide a vision of a different value system. Ecofeminism is after all a 'new term for an ancient wisdom'. Their book is a powerful plea for the rediscovery of such wisdom by feminists and ecologists everywhere
eBook, English, 1993
1st edition View all formats and editions
Zed Books, London, 1993
1 online resource
9781780329796, 1780329792
1124388104
Foreword - Ariel SallehPreface to the 'Critique Influence Change' edition1. Introduction: Why We Wrote This Book TogetherPart I: Critique and Perspective2. Reductionism and Regeneration: A Crisis in Science, Vandana Shiva3. Feminist Research: Science, Violence and Responsibility, Maria MiesPart II: Subsistence V. Development4. The Myth of Catching-up Development, Maria Mies5. the Impoverishment of the environment: Women and Children Last, Vandana Shiva6. Who Made nature our Enemy?, Maria MiesPart III: The Search for Roots7. Homeless in the 'Global Village', Vandana Shiva8. Masculinization of the Motherland, Vandana Shiva9. Women have no Fatherland, Maria Mies10. White man's dilemma: His Search for What He has Destroyed, Maria MiesPart IV: Ecofeminism V. New Areas of Investment through Biotechnology11. Women's Indigenous Knowledge and Biodiversity Conservation, Vandana Shiva12. New Reproductive Technologies: Sexist and Racist Implications, Maria Mies13. From the Individual to the Dividual: the Supermarket of 'Reproductive alternatives' Maria MiesPart V: Freedom for Trade or Freedom for Survival14. Self Determination: The End of a Utopia? Maria Mies15. GATT, Agriculture and Third World Women, Vandana Shiva16. The Chipko Women's concept of Freedom, Vandana, Shiva