Ecofeminism

Maria Mies

Book - 2014

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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Published
London : Zed Books 2014.
Language
English
Main Author
Maria Mies (author)
Other Authors
Vandana Shiva (author)
Physical Description
xxx, 328 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9781780325637
  • 1. Introduction: Why We Wrote This Book Together
  • Part I. Critique And Perspective
  • 2. Reductionism and Regeneration: A Crisis in Science
  • 3. Feminist Research: Science, Violence and Responsibility
  • Part II. Subsistence Vs. Development
  • 4. The Myth of Catching-up Development
  • 5. The Impoverishment of the environment: Women and Children Last
  • 6. Who Made nature our Enemy?
  • Part III. The Search For Roots
  • 7. Homeless in the 'Global Village'
  • 8. Masculinization of the Motherland
  • 9. Women have no Fatherland
  • 10. White man's dilemma: His Search for What He has Destroyed
  • Part IV. Ecofeminism Vs. New Areas Of Investment Through Biotechnology
  • 11. Women's Indigenous Knowledge and Biodiversity Conservation
  • 12. New Reproductive Technologies: Sexist and Racist Implications
  • 13. From the Individual to the Dividual: the Supermarket of 'Reproductive alternatives'
  • Part V. Freedom For Trade Or Freedom For Survival
  • 14. Self Determination: The End of a Utopia?
  • 15. GATT, Agriculture and Third World Women
  • 16. The Chipko Women's concept of Freedom
Review by Choice Review

Mies and Shiva, internationally respected feminist activists and writers, have put together a book that forcefully demonstrates the ways in which ecological destruction disproportionately affects women, and particularly women in the developing world. This is not mere coincidence, they argue; the oppression of women and the degradation of nature spring from the same ideological roots. Although this is hardly a new argument, the book's value lies in its application to questions of international development, which both authors contend is merely a furtherance of the colonial projects of an earlier age. What is really needed, they claim, is a return to local self-governance with an emphasis on subsistence production, both in the developing South and the industrialized North. For Mies and Shiva, consumer liberation movements, women's cooperatives, and grassroots activism all offer models for an ecologically sustainable and women-friendly future. Readers looking for an introduction to principles of ecofeminism, or for sustained philosophical analyses will not find them here, but the book would still be a good addition to environmental studies and ecofeminist collections. General readers; undergraduates. L. Vance; Vermont College

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