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Ecofeminism

A powerful searing indictment of development strategies practised by the North on the South.
Print Book, English, 2014
Zed Books ; Distributed exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, London, New York, 2014
328 pages ; 22 cm.
9781780325637, 9781780329789, 1780325630, 1780329784
1011786332
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