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MINDING
OUR LIVES: Women
from the South and North Reconnect Ecology
and Health
Vandana Shiva
(Ed.)
Rs 160 Hb 1994
81-85107-51-3
(UK, USA rights sold. All others available.)
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The
contemporary crisis of survival has compelled us
to reject the notion of an insular divide between
the environment and our bodies. Environmental hazards
are health hazards, as demonstrated by Bhopal, Chernobyl,
Love Canal and other disasters, and they are also
health hazards in food systems. Pesticides pollute
fields, and our bodies, while the destruction of
biodiversity impoverishes nature and society.
This book addresses the cultural and political roots
of the ecological crisis and the crisis in health;
the link between environmental degradation and women’s
health; and between ecological breakdown and social
breakdown; the impact of new technologies on women’s
health and ecological stability, and the strategies
that women, and men, are using to respond to violence
against nature and the related violence against
women.
With contributions from India, Sri Lanka, Thailand,
New Zealand, the Philippines, the U S and Canada.
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VANDANA
SHIVA
is a world-renowned
environmental thinker and activist, and a leader
in the International Forum on Globalization along
with Ralph Nader and Jeremy Rifkin. She is Director
of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology
and Ecology, and the author of many books including
Staying Alive: Women,
Ecology and Development in India
(1988), The Violence
of the Green Revolution
(1990), Ecology and
the Politics of Survival
(1991), Stolen Harvest
(2000), and Patents:
Myths and Reality
(2001). |
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