Ecofeminism

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This groundbreaking work remains as relevant today as when it was when first published. Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva, two world-renowned feminist environmental activists, 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.  Read more... * Foreword by Ariel Salleh * Preface to the 'Critique Influence Change' edition * 1. Introduction: Why We Wrote This Book Together * Part 1: Critique and Perspective * 2. Reductionism and Regeneration: A Crisis in Science, Vandana Shiva * 3. Feminist Research: Science, Violence and Responsibility, Maria Mies * Part 2: Subsistence V. Development * 4. The Myth of Catching-up Development, Maria Mies * 5. the Impoverishment of the environment: Women and Children Last, Vandana Shiva * 6. Who Made nature our Enemy?, Maria Mies * Part 3: The Search for Roots * 7. Homeless in the 'Global Village', Vandana Shiva * 8. Masculinization of the Motherland, Vandana Shiva * 9. Women have no Fatherland, Maria Mies * 10. White man's dilemma: His Search for What He has Destroyed, Maria Mies * Part 4: Ecofeminism V. New Areas of Investment through Biotechnology * 11. Women's Indigenous Knowledge and Biodiversity Conservation, Vandana Shiva * 12. New Reproductive Technologies: Sexist and Racist Implications, Maria Mies * 13. From the Individual to the Dividual: the Supermarket of 'Reproductive alternatives' Maria Mies * Part 5: Freedom for Trade or Freedom for Survival * 14. Self Determination: The End of a Utopia? Maria Mies * 15. GATT, Agriculture and Third World Women, Vandana Shiva * 16. The Chipko Women's concept of Freedom, Vandana, Shiva