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STAYING ALIVE:
WOMEN, ECOLOGY & SURVIVAL IN INDIA
Vandana Shiva
Rs 350 Pb 2010
81-88965-58-8
(Australia, US and Canada, Spanish, Turkish and Malayalam rights sold. Others available)
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This internationally acknowledged study with a new Introduction takes the three related concerns— development, ecology and gender—and shows the intimate link between the degradation of women and the degradation of nature in contemporary society. Both arise from assumptions that guide maldevelopment, … [that] is exploitative by definition. The author explores the unique place of women in the environment, both as its saviours and as victims of ecological maldevelopment [which] differs from most conventional analyses of environmentalists and feminists, which focused on women in the Third World as special victims of environmental degradation. |
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VANDANA SHIVA
is a world-renowned environmental thinker and activist. A leader in the International Forum on Globalization (IFG) with Ralph Nader and Jeremy Rifkin and the Slow Food movement. Shiva won the Alternative Nobel Prize ( the Right Livelihood Award) in 1993. She is Director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, and the author of many books including The Violence of the Green Revolution (1990), Ecology and the Politics of Survival (1991), Stolen Harvest (2000), and Patents: Myths and Reality (2001) and Manifestos on the Future of Food & Seed (2007) . Before becoming an activist, Vandana Shiva was one of India's leading physicists. She was awarded the prestigious Sydney Peace Prize in 2010. |
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| extraordinary in the ease of its global and historical scopes and the clarity of its arguments. |
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—Women's Review of Books
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| Cogently written, empirically sensitive, and marked by passion and conviction. |
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—Rajni Kothari
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| A uniquely modern Green mixture of mythology, social disquiet, dry statistical tables and assaults on Western 'male' science. |
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—Spectator
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