TY  - BOOK
AU  - Braidotti,Rosi
ED  - International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women
TI  - Women, the environment and sustainable development: towards a theoretical synthesis 
SN  - 1856491838
AV  - HQ1240 .W6627 1994
U1  - 305.42 22
PY  - 1994///
CY  - London, Atlantic Highlands, N.J.
PB  - Zed Books in association with INSTRAW
KW  - Women in development
KW  - Women and the environment
KW  - Sustainable development
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - Conservation of natural resources
KW  - Feminist theory
KW  - Environmental aspects
N1  - 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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