Staying alive : women, ecology, and development / Vandana Shiva.

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TextPublication details: Berkeley : North Atlantic Books, 2016.Description: xxxiv, 228 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

9781623170516

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DDC classification:

305.42

Contents:

Introduction, 2010 -- Introduction to the first edition -- Ch. 1. Development, ecology and women -- Ch. 2. Science, nature, and gender -- Ch. 3. Women in nature -- Ch. 4. Women in the forest -- Ch. 5. Women in the food chain -- Ch. 6. Women and the vanishing waters -- Ch. 7. Terra Mater: Reclaiming the feminine principle.

Summary: Presents a clear case for why our current development paradigm is more accurately characterized as what Vandana Shiva calls 'maldevelopment' – the violation of the integrity of organic, interconnected and interdependent systems that sets in motion a process of exploitation, inequality, violence, and injustice that is dragging the world down a path of self-destruction, threatening survival itself.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	Marbella International University Centre Library	305.42 SHI sta (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	11301

Includes index.

Introduction, 2010 --
Introduction to the first edition --
Ch. 1. Development, ecology and women --
Ch. 2. Science, nature, and gender --
Ch. 3. Women in nature --
Ch. 4. Women in the forest --
Ch. 5. Women in the food chain --
Ch. 6. Women and the vanishing waters --
Ch. 7. Terra Mater: Reclaiming the feminine principle.

Presents a clear case for why our current development paradigm is more accurately characterized as what Vandana Shiva calls 'maldevelopment' – the violation of the integrity of organic, interconnected and interdependent systems that sets in motion a process of exploitation, inequality, violence, and injustice that is dragging the world down a path of self-destruction, threatening survival itself.

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