[DOWNLOAD] "Eco-Cide: Thinking Ecologically and Globally About Women and Violence (Report)" by Women in Welfare Education * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Eco-Cide: Thinking Ecologically and Globally About Women and Violence (Report)
- Author : Women in Welfare Education
- Release Date : January 01, 1998
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 209 KB
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Today another threat is eco-cide. Our way of life is creating havoc on our natural environment and global ecological crises are threatening our very survival! These concerns have been well documented by numerous authors (Porritt 1984; Shiva 1989; Shiva 1994; Trainer 1985). The experience of the global crises for women and nature is often a violation of the integrity of all life. Women and nature are viewed as 'other', as passive objects to be dominated, used and exploited. This violence to nature is symptomised by the ecological crisis, and subjugation and exploitation are the symptoms of violence to women (Shiva 1989). The not so visible violence to women's lives and their futures through environmental destruction, often in the name of development and growth, brings about injustices "that are accepted as virtually 'normal' in many countries and households" (Hunt 1993, 4)--injustices which are often a matter of life or death. Women in developing countries particularly bear the brunt of environmental crises and 'development'. To ecofeminists the violence of the 'ecological crisis' is part of a larger malaise which requires a 'green' analysis that recognises women's relationship to nature and the fact that the poorest of the poor are women.