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Ecofeminism /
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' de...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York, NY :
Zed Books,
2014.
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| Edición: | [2nd edition]. |
| Colección: | Critique, influence, change ;
05. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front cover; critique influence change; About the authors; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface to the critique influence change edition; 1 Introduction: Why We Wrote This Book Together; Why is it so difficult to see this common ground?; Freedom versus emancipation; False strategies; The global versus the local; The breakdown of universalist (Western) ideologies and the emergence of cultural relativism; Ecofeminism; 'Spiritual' or 'political' ecofeminism?; Notes; Part 1 Critique and Perspective; 2 Reductionism and Regeneration: A Crisis in Science; Knowledge and ignorance
- Value and non-value The reduction of human reproduction; The reduction of plant reproduction; Invasion and justice; Regeneration, production and consumption; Notes; 3 Feminist Research: Science, Violence and Responsibility; Methodological guidelines for feminist research; Notes; References; Part 2 Subsistence v. Development; 4 The Myth of Catching-up Development; Divide and rule: modern industrial society's secret; Catching-up impossible and undesirable; Does catching-up development liberate women?; Notes; 5 The Impoverishment of the Environment: Women and Children Last
- Environmental degradation and poverty creation Impoverishment of women, children and the environment; The food and nutrition crisis; The water crisis; Toxic hazards; Nuclear hazards; Survival strategies of women and children; Dispensability of the last child: the dominant paradigm; Grassroots response; Putting women and children first; Notes; 6 Who Made Nature Our Enemy?; Everything has changed
- everything is the same; Some lessons
- not only for women; Notes; Part 3 The Search for Roots; 7 Homeless in the 'Global Village'; Development as uprooting; Soil as a sacred mother; Notes
- 8 Masculinization of the Motherland Globalization and the rise of nationalism; From plurality to duality; Notes; 9 Women have no Fatherland; Women pay the price; Colonization of women; Global orientation and national self-interest; Violence and the state; Mother nation and father state; National identity or catching-up development?; Notes; 10 White Man's Dilemma: His Search for What He Has Destroyed; Despair in the midst of plenty; Violence and desire; Pornography and prostitution tourism; Sexuality and nature; Reproduction technology; The source of these desires
- Dissection and the search for wholeness Violence, progress and sentimentalism; Before the idyll; Romanticizing the 'Savage'; Romanticizing nature; How fascism uses these desires; Notes; Part 4 Ecofeminism v. New Areas of Investment through Biotechnology; 11 Women's Indigenous Knowledge and Biodiversity Conservation; Diversity as women's expertise; Women: custodians of biodiversity; 'Sacredness': a conservation category; Biotechnology and the destruction of biodiversity; 12 New Reproductive Technologies: Sexist and Racist Implications; Introduction; Selection and elimination