Close to home : women reconnect ecology, health and development worldwide

Shiva, Vandana. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 1550922157 (Canada : pbk.) :
ISBN: 1550922149 (Canada)
ISBN: 0865712638 (U.S.)
ISBN: 0865712646 (U.S. : pbk.)
Physical Description: print
170 p. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Philadelphia, PA ; Gabriola Island, BC : New Society Publishers, c1994.

General Note:	Thoroughly revised and updated papers originally presented at the Seminar on "Women, Ecology and Health", Bangalore, India, July 17-22, 1991. "Published in cooperation with Kali for Women, India"-- T.p. verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Women, ecology and health / Vandana Shiva -- After the forest : AIDS as ecological collapse in Thailand / Ann Danaiya Usher -- Killing legally with toxic waste : women and the environment in the United States / Penny Newman -- Environmental degradation and subversion of health / Mira Shiva -- Using technology, choosing sex : the campaign against sex determination and the question of choice / Forum Against Sex Determination and Sex Pre-selection -- Legal rights-- and wrongs : internationalising Bhopal / Indira Jaising and C. Sathyamala -- "Green earth, women's power, human liberation" : women in peasant movements in India / Gail Omvedt -- Filipino peasant women in defence of life / Loreta B. Ayupan and Teresita G. Oliveros -- Ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka : its ecological and political consequences / Rita Sebastian -- The seed and the earth : biotechnology and the colonisation of regeneration / Vandana Shiva -- The re-greening of the planet / Rosalie Bertell -- Ecological economics / Marilyn Waring.