TY - BOOK TI - Staying alive: women, ecology, and development SN - 9781623170516 U1 - 305.42 PY - 2016/// CY - Berkeley : PB - North Atlantic Books KW - Women in development KW - India KW - Human ecology KW - Patriarchy KW - Environmental policy KW - Women KW - Social conditions KW - Social policy N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -