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Author / Creator:	Mies, Maria.
Imprint:	Halifax, N.S. : Fernwood Publications ; London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Zed Books, ©1993.
Description:	328 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Ecofeminism. Human ecology. Economic development -- Social aspects. Ecology. Women. Women Ecology Economic development -- Social aspects Ecofeminism Human ecology
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11658760

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Other authors / contributors:	Shiva, Vandana.
ISBN:	1856491552 9781856491556 1856491560 9781856491563 1895686288 9781895686289
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Two authors, one an economist, the other a physicist and philosopher, come together in this book on a controversial environmental agenda. Using interview material, they bring together women's perspectives from North and South on environmental deterioration and develop and new way of approaching this body of knowledge which is at once practical and philosophical. Do women involved in environmental movements see a link between patriarchy and ecological degradation? What are the links between global militarism and the destruction of nature? In exploring such questions, the authors criticize prevailing theories and develop an intellectually rigorous ecofeminist perspective rooted in the needs of everyday life. They argue for the acceptance of limits, the rejection of the commoditization of needs, and a commitment to a new ethics. -- From publisher's description.
Other form:	Online version: Mies, Maria. Ecofeminism. Halifax, N.S. : Fernwood Publications ; London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Zed Books, ©1993

Table of Contents:

Reductionism and regeneration: a crisis in science / Vandana Shiva
Feminist research: science, violence and responsibility / Maria Mies
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
Homeless in the 'global village' / Vandana Shiva
Masculinization of the motherland / Vandana Shiva
Women have no fatherland / Maria Mies
White man's dilemma : his search for what he has destroyed / Maria Mies
Women's indigenous knowledge and biodiversity conservation / Vandana Shiva
New reproductive technologies: sexist and racist implications / Maria Mies
From the individual to the dividual : the supermarket of 'reproductive alternatives' / Maria Mies
Self-determination : the end of a utopia? / Maria Mies
GATT, agriculture and third world women / Vandana Shiva
The Chipko women's concept of freedom / Vandana Shiva
Liberating the consumer / Maria Mies
Decolonizing the North / Vandana Shiva
People or population: towards a new ecology of reproduction / Maria Mies, Vandana Shiva
The need for a new vision: the subsistence perspective / Maria Mies.

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