Contents

Foreword Ariel Salleh

Preface to the critique influence change edition

  1  Introduction: Why We Wrote This Book Together

Part 1 Critique and Perspective

  2  Reductionism and Regeneration: A Crisis in Science Vandana Shiva

  3  Feminist Research: Science, Violence and Responsibility Maria Mies

Part 2 Subsistence v. Development

  4  The Myth of Catching-up Development Maria Mies

  5  The Impoverishment of the Environment: Women and Children Last Vandana Shiva

  6  Who Made Nature Our Enemy? Maria Mies

Part 3 The Search for Roots

  7  Homeless in the ‘Global Village’ Vandana Shiva

  8  Masculinization of the Motherland Vandana Shiva

  9 Women have no Fatherland Maria Mies

10  White Man’s Dilemma: His Search for What He Has Destroyed Maria Mies

Part 4 Ecofeminism v. New Areas of Investment through Biotechnology

11  Women’s Indigenous Knowledge and Biodiversity Conservation Vandana Shiva

12  New Reproductive Technologies: Sexist and Racist Implications Maria Mies

13  From the Individual to the Dividual: the Supermarket of ‘Reproductive Alternatives’ Maria Mies

Part 5 Freedom for Trade or Freedom for Survival?

14  Self-Determination: The End of a Utopia? Maria Mies

15  GATT, Agriculture and Third World Women Vandana Shiva

16  The Chipko Women’s Concept of Freedom Vandana Shiva

Part 6 Subsistence: Freedom v. Liberalization

17  Liberating the Consumer Maria Mies

18  Decolonizing the North Vandana Shiva

19  People or Population: Towards a New Ecology of Reproduction Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva

Part 7 Conclusion

20  The Need for a New Vision: the Subsistence Perspective Maria Mies

Index