Women, the Environment and Sustainable Development: Towards a Theoretical Synthesis - Couverture rigide

UN International Research And Training Institute For The Advancement Of Women (UN-INSTRAW)

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1856491838 ISBN 13 : 9781856491839

Editeur : Zed Books Ltd, 1993

Synopsis

There is a widespread perception that the development process is in a state of multiple crisis. While the notion of sustainable development is supposed to address adequately its environmental dimensions, there is still no agreed framework relating women to this new perspective. This book is an attempy to present and disentangle the various positions put forward by major actors and to clarify the political and theoretical issues that are at stake in the debates on women, the environment and sustainable development. Among the current critiques of the Western model of development which the authors review are the feminist analysis of Science itself and the power relations inherent in the production of knowledge; Women, Environment and Development (WED); Alternative Development; Environmental Reformism; and Deep Ecology, Social Ecology and Ecofeminism. In traversing this important landscape of ideas, they show how they criticise the dominant development model at the various levels of epistemology, theory and policy. The authors also go further and put forward their own ideas as to the basic elements they consider necessary in constructing a paradigmatic shift - emphasising such values as holism, mutuality, justice, autonomy, self-reliance, sustainability and peace. This unique work is a signally useful contribution to clarifying thinking on a topic with immense implications for all women.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Rosi Braidotti is Professor of Women's Studies, University of Utrecht, and the author of Patterns of Dissonance (Polity Press, 1991). Saskia Wieringa is a lecturer on women and development at the Institute of Social Studies, the Hague, and is author of Women's Struggles and Strategies (Gower, 1988). Ewa Charkiewicz and Sabine Hausler are researchers at the Institute of Social Studies.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Zed Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1856491838
• ISBN 13: 9781856491839
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible