Women, the environment and sustainable development : towards a theoretical synthesis /
Braidotti, Rosi
Women, the environment and sustainable development : towards a theoretical synthesis / Rosi Braidotti [and others]. - xiii, 220 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-213) and index.
Foreword -- Preface -- Authors' Note -- Introduction: The Global Crisis of Environment and Development and the Emergence of the Women, Environment and Sustainable Development Theme -- Preparation for the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development -- In search of theoretical connections: a proposal -- Western science: the motor of the crisis -- Transformations of development: different suggestions -- Developmentalism: A Discourse of Power -- The development decades: their impact on the South -- The theoretical assumptions of developmentalism -- Development in the 1990s -- Feminist Critiques of Science -- Feminist thought on science -- Historical analysis of feminist epistemology -- Theoretical analysis of feminist epistemology -- The new feminist epistemologies -- The Relationship between Women and Nature: Debates within Feminism -- Streams within feminism -- The first wave of feminism -- Nazi Germany -- The second wave -- Ecriture feminine -- Cultural feminism -- Differences among women -- Essentialism versus constructivism -- Women, the Environment and Sustainable Development: Emergence of the Theme and Different Views -- Women in Development (WID) in a historical perspective -- The shift from women in development to gender and development -- Women, Environment and Sustainable Development (WED) in historical perspective -- Women organize for the Earth Summit -- Ideas of Women, Environment and Sustainable Development -- Development agencies' conceptualization of WED -- WED and the UNCED process -- Alternative Development -- The alternative structuralist and the alternative normativist approach to alternative development -- Feminist critique of development by DAWN (Development with Women for a New Era) -- Environmental Reforms and the Debates on Sustainable Development -- UNCED and the NGO Global Forum in 1992 -- The sustainable development debate -- Concepts of economic growth and equity in the sustainable development debate -- Environmental reforms in economics -- Strategies towards sustainable development: some proposals -- Responses to the Crisis from Deep Ecology, Social Ecology and Ecofeminism -- Deep ecology -- Social ecology -- Ecofeminism: challenges and contradictions -- Conclusions -- Women and UNCED: successes and failures -- WED as a coalition theme: some proposals for future action -- The WED movement post-UNCED -- Proposals for policy changes on WED in development co-operation -- Bibliography -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
1856491838 9781856491839 1856491846 9781856491846
94001964
Women in development
Women and the environment
Sustainable development.
Human ecology
Conservation of natural resources.
Feminist theory.
Women in development--Environmental aspects
HQ1240 / .W6627 1994
305.42
Women, the environment and sustainable development : towards a theoretical synthesis / Rosi Braidotti [and others]. - xiii, 220 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-213) and index.
Foreword -- Preface -- Authors' Note -- Introduction: The Global Crisis of Environment and Development and the Emergence of the Women, Environment and Sustainable Development Theme -- Preparation for the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development -- In search of theoretical connections: a proposal -- Western science: the motor of the crisis -- Transformations of development: different suggestions -- Developmentalism: A Discourse of Power -- The development decades: their impact on the South -- The theoretical assumptions of developmentalism -- Development in the 1990s -- Feminist Critiques of Science -- Feminist thought on science -- Historical analysis of feminist epistemology -- Theoretical analysis of feminist epistemology -- The new feminist epistemologies -- The Relationship between Women and Nature: Debates within Feminism -- Streams within feminism -- The first wave of feminism -- Nazi Germany -- The second wave -- Ecriture feminine -- Cultural feminism -- Differences among women -- Essentialism versus constructivism -- Women, the Environment and Sustainable Development: Emergence of the Theme and Different Views -- Women in Development (WID) in a historical perspective -- The shift from women in development to gender and development -- Women, Environment and Sustainable Development (WED) in historical perspective -- Women organize for the Earth Summit -- Ideas of Women, Environment and Sustainable Development -- Development agencies' conceptualization of WED -- WED and the UNCED process -- Alternative Development -- The alternative structuralist and the alternative normativist approach to alternative development -- Feminist critique of development by DAWN (Development with Women for a New Era) -- Environmental Reforms and the Debates on Sustainable Development -- UNCED and the NGO Global Forum in 1992 -- The sustainable development debate -- Concepts of economic growth and equity in the sustainable development debate -- Environmental reforms in economics -- Strategies towards sustainable development: some proposals -- Responses to the Crisis from Deep Ecology, Social Ecology and Ecofeminism -- Deep ecology -- Social ecology -- Ecofeminism: challenges and contradictions -- Conclusions -- Women and UNCED: successes and failures -- WED as a coalition theme: some proposals for future action -- The WED movement post-UNCED -- Proposals for policy changes on WED in development co-operation -- Bibliography -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
1856491838 9781856491839 1856491846 9781856491846
94001964
Women in development
Women and the environment
Sustainable development.
Human ecology
Conservation of natural resources.
Feminist theory.
Women in development--Environmental aspects
HQ1240 / .W6627 1994
305.42