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"Critique influence change edition" |
| Description |
xxx, 328 pages ; 22 cm. |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
Critique Influence Change |
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Critique, influence, change.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Ariel Salleh -- Preface to the critique influence change edition -- Introduction: Why we wrote this book together -- Critique and perspective. Reductionism and regeneration: a crisis in science / Vandana Shiva -- Feminist research: science, violence and responsibility / Maria Mies -- Subsistence v. development. The myth of catching-up development / Maria Mies -- The impoverishment of the environment: women and children last / Vandana Shiva -- Who made nature our enemy? / Maria Mies -- The search for roots. Homeless in the 'global village' ; Masculinization of the Motherland / Vandana Shiva -- Women have no Fatherland ; White man's dilemma: his search for what he has destroyed / Maria Mies -- Ecofeminism v. new areas of investment through biotechnology. Women's indigenous knowledge and biodiversity conservation / Vandana Shiva -- New reproductive technologies: sexist and racist implications ; From the individual to the dividual: the supermarket of 'reproductive alternatives' / Maria Mies -- Freedom for trade or freedom for survival? Self-determination: the end of a utopia? / Maria Mies -- GATT, agriculture and Third World women ; The Chipko women's concept of freedom / Vandana Shiva -- Subsistence: freedom v. liberalization. Liberating the consumer / Maria Mies -- Decolonizing the north / Vandana Shiva -- People or population: towards a new ecology of reproduction / Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva -- Conclusion. The need for a new vision: the subsistence perspective / Maria Mies. |
| Summary |
Should women see a relationship between patriarchal oppression and the destruction of Nature in the name of profit and progress? How can they counter the violence inherent in these processes? Should they look to a link between the women's movement and other social movements? The authors offer an analysis of such 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. In constructing their own ecofeminist epistemology and methodology, they look at movements advocating consumer liberation, subsistence production and sustainability, and argue for an acceptance of limits and reciprocity and the endless commoditification of needs.-- From publisher's description. |
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Ecofeminism.
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Human ecology.
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Economic development -- Social aspects.
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Ecofeminism (OCoLC)fst00901429
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Economic development -- Social aspects
(OCoLC)fst00901865
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Human ecology (OCoLC)fst00962941
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| Added Author |
Shiva, Vandana, author. Author.
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| ISBN |
9781780325637 (pbk.) |
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1780325630 (pbk.) |
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