Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development

by Vandana Shiva and Vandana

Book Overview

Inspired by women's struggles for the protection of nature as a condition for human survival, award-winning environmentalist Vandana Shiva shows how ecological destruction and the marginalization of women are not inevitable, economically or scientifically. She argues that "maldevelopment"--the violation of the integrity of organic, interconnected, and interdependent systems that sets in motion a process of exploitation, inequality, and injustice--is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1623170516
• ISBN13: 9781623170516
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: North Atlantic Books
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

The description of this book DOES NOT BELONG here!

Vandana Shiva writes about climate change, women's struggles & ecological destruction, not a fantasy novel about Mer-people. It needs to be fixed!

The Revival of Feminine Principle for All of Us.

The book may seem different from your perspective. However, it might be good to know what underlies the whole story in the book. From my point of view, the author's claim has nothing to do with political action but genuin intuition of humanity which can be said a sort of wisdom for our survival towards future. It encourages us to be aware that the ongoing value system under capitalism is not necessarily conforming to our actual feelings or experiences. If your suffering, fear and suppression seem related to the current social system, the book is worth reading because it helps you remember what gives you the sense of being alive, responsibility for and love towards the future of the world. Disillusioned of lots of tragedies happening to the world, we have started wondering which to call real, the inner sense of happiness or the material world. I dare say, it is not critique that can change the world but sharing of anyone's failure within us. Only such an idea of sharing can lead us to the inner and direct experience that the other half of the failure has always existed in us. This is the only way and chance for us to make a step towards future. In that sense, what the author considers as a problem is not the masculine principle but the imbalance in which the feminine principle is being suppressed. Driven much so far by the masculine principle, we -both women and men- have been so bound to fear caused by dualistic and mechanistic views on life that we could not pay much attention to the self-destructive aspect of our society. The author, Shiva, simply but strikingly argues that the feminine principle of EACH one of us to be recoverd if we really want to remember what the meaning of life is, namely the reason why we have come here to such a beautiful place called "the Earth".

to remember

that women have a ralationship with environment. and i want to know how they extand with this

to remember

how to extand that women have a relationship with environment