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Women Reconnect Ecology, Health and Development

The official responses to the various crises has largely been one of offering technological and managerial 'fixes,' which often fail to address or solve the basic ecological issues. This book emphasises that the environment is not some distant concern, but one that affects the health and well-being of communities on a daily basis.

The contributions in this book, edited by Vandana Shiva, show how women worldwide are taking action at grass-roots level, battling toxic wastes, low-level radiation and biotechnology in the struggle for truly sustainable community development.

Preface * Women, Ecology and Health: Rebuilding Connections * After the Forest: AIDS as Ecological Collapse in Thailand * Killing Legally with Toxic Waste: Women and the Environment in the United States * Environmental Degradation and Subversion of Health * Using Technology, Choosing Sex: The Campaign Against Sex Determination and the Question of Choice * Legal Rights... and Wrongs: Internationalising Bhopal * 'Green Earth, Women's Power, Human Liberation': Women in Peasant Movements in India * Filipino Peasant Women in Defence of Life * Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka: Its Ecological and Political Consequences * The Seed and the Earth: Biotechnology and the Colonisation of Regeneration * The Re-greening of the Planet * Ecological Economics * Notes on Contributors