Women, the environment and sustainable development : towards a theoretical synthesis / Rosi Braidotti [and others].

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-213) and index.

Foreword -- Preface -- Authors' Note -- 1. 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 -- 2. Developmentalism: A Discourse of Power -- The development decades: their impact on the South -- The theoretical assumptions of developmentalism -- Development in the 1990s -- 3. Feminist Critiques of Science -- Feminist thought on science -- Historical analysis of feminist epistemology -- Theoretical analysis of feminist epistemology -- The new feminist epistemologies -- 4. 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 -- 5. 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 -- 6. 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) -- 7. 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 -- 8. Responses to the Crisis from Deep Ecology, Social Ecology and Ecofeminism -- Deep ecology -- Social ecology -- Ecofeminism: challenges and contradictions -- 9. 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.

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