![]() ![]() Ecofeminism's analysis of global politics, ecology and the status of women has an unmistakable ring of truth.' - Women's Review of Books ![]() ![]() moreĮcofeminism: the book she authored with Vandana Shiva defined and explained ecological feminism.įirst published in 1993, it was reissued by Zed Press (UK) in 2014, with a new foreward by Ariel Salleh. Mies's theory of capitalist patriarchy has become even more relevant today. Tracing the social origins of the sexual division of labour, it offers a history of the related processes of colonization and 'housewifization' and extends this analysis to the contemporary new international division of labour. ![]() 'It is my thesis that this general production of life, or subsistence production - mainly performed through the non-wage labour of women and other non-wage labourers as slaves, contract workers and peasants in the colonies - constitutes the perennial basis upon which "capitalist productive labour" can be built up and exploited.'įirst published in 1986, Maria Mies’s progressive book was hailed as a major paradigm shift for feminist theory, and it remains a major contribution to development theory and practice today. ![]()
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