Staying Alive - Women, Ecology, and Development (Shiva Dr Vandana (Research Foundation for Science Technology and Ecology New Delhi India Research Foundation for Science Technology and Ecology New Delhi Research Foundation for Science Technology and Ecolo - diskuze

Inspired by women s struggles for the protection of nature as a condition for human survival, award-winning environmentalist Vandana Shiva shows how ecological destruction and the marginalization of women are not inevitable, economically or scientifically. She argues that maldevelopment the violation of the integrity of organic, interconnected, and interdependent systems that sets in motion a process of exploitation, inequality, and injustice is dragging the world down a path of self-destruction, threatening survival itself. Shiva articulates how rural Indian women experience and perceive ecological destruction and its causes, and how they have conceived and initiated processes to arrest the destruction of nature and begin its regeneration. Focusing on science and development as patriarchal projects, "Staying Alive" is a powerfully relevant book that positions women not solely as
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