Description |
xi, 202 pages ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-193) and index. |
Contents |
Foreword / Starhawk -- Preface -- Feminism, Fertility, and the Living Earth -- Bodies, Sex, and Feminist Politics: Echoes of Anger and Celebration -- Sex Without Consequences: From Sexual Freedom to the Sexuated Body -- Children Without Turmoil: From Sex Without Reproduction to Reproduction Without Sex -- Food Without Sweat: From Abundance for All to the Poisoning of the Planet -- Our Bodies, Our Earth: The Politics of Renewal, Restructuring, and Re-Evolution -- Afterword: Coming to Rest. |
Summary |
In a wide-ranging critique of Western thought and practice, ecofeminist Irene Diamond raises unsettling questions about the ethic of control that permeates how we think about fertility, sexuality, agriculture, and the environment. |
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"In Diamond's far-reaching eco-feminist vision, the struggle for women's rights is inseparable from the struggle for ecological sanity, the eradication of militarism and opposition to the industrialized, wealthy nations' exploitation of poor countries. Her passionate, challenging manifesto critiques mainstream feminism which, she contends, has become stalemated by its contention that women's freedom resides in gaining control over women's bodies and sexuality. Diamond, who teaches in the University of Oregon's political science department, views new genetic screening techniques as part of a masculinist ``medical heroics'' that threatens the well-being and dignity of women. After scanning the damaging effects of agribusiness and Western-style development on traditional societies and their ecosystems, she outlines a diversity of alternative practices and protests--organic farming, small dam projects, community-based child care networks, campaigns for land redistribution in India, a women's ``peace camp'' on an English military base--that offer the possibility of sustainable social justice and democratic empowerment." -- publishersweekly.com |
Subject |
Ecofeminism.
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Birth control -- Social aspects.
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Fertility, Human -- Social aspects.
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Birth control -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00833207
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Ecofeminism. (OCoLC)fst00901429
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Fertility, Human -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00923183
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Vrouwen.
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Vruchtbaarheid.
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Milieu.
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Ecofeminisme.
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Geburtenregelung (DE-588)4019593-4
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Feminismus (DE-588)4222126-2
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ökofeminizmus
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születésszabályozás -- társadalmi szempont
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termékenység -- társadalmi szempont
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Indexed Term |
Birth control Social aspects |
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Ecofeminism |
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Fertility, Human Social aspects |
Added Author |
Starhawk, author of the introduction.
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Unitarian Universalist Association, responsible party.
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Other Form: |
Online version: Diamond, Irene, 1947- Fertile ground. Boston : Beacon Press, ©1994 (OCoLC)988565979 |
ISBN |
0807067725 |
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9780807067727 |
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