From the Book - Regular Print
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 perspecctive / Maria Mies.