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February 09, 2016

Birthday greetings to Maria Mies

Ecofeminist, author-activist-teacher and friend, Maria Mies turned 85 earlier this month. We want to honor her by sharing her work on our site, here in English, and at our German page, in her native language.

THEN:  Maria wrote about the landmark conference: Maria Mies on the 1980 Women and Life on Earth conference and ecofeminism
"Ecofeminism, a 'new term for an ancient wisdom' grew out of various social movements - the feminist, peace and ecology movements - in the late 1970s and early 1980s.  More

A review of Maria's publications in English, with some major articles

NOW: Two classics by Maria Mies have recently been reissued:

Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale:
Women in the International Division of Labour

'It is my thesis that this general production of life, or subsistence production - mainly performed through the non-wage labour of women and other non-wage labourers as slaves, contract workers and peasants in the colonies - constitutes the perennial basis upon which "capitalist productive labour" can be built up and exploited.'

First published in 1986, Maria Mies’s progressive book was hailed as a major paradigm shift for feminist theory, and it remains a major contribution to development theory and practice today.

Tracing the social origins of the sexual division of labour, it offers a history of the related processes of colonization and 'housewifization' and extends this analysis to the contemporary new international division of labour. Mies's theory of capitalist patriarchy has become even more relevant today. more

Ecofeminism: the book she authored with Vandana Shiva defined and explained ecological feminism. First published in 1993, it was reissued by Zed Press (UK) in 2014, with a new foreward by Ariel Salleh.



'A scholarly but passionate study... Ecofeminism's analysis of global politics, ecology and the status of women has an unmistakable ring of truth.' - Women's Review of Books

This is the basic text for women's study of ecofeminism, by two leading activist-scholars, one from the 'north', German professor emeritus Maria Mies, the other from the 'south', Indian physicist Vandana Shiva. Together they present a fundamental feminist critique of modern industrial development, its effects on women and children, on nature and all aspects of the environment, with many examples from real life around the world." -- Zed Press

'The re-release of Ecofeminism after twenty years is auspicious and long overdue. Converging from widely divergent perspectives, Mies and Shiva achieved a profound conceptual synthesis: the rising of women, everywhere, to protect life from the capitalist patriarchal World System. Overturning all, like good cultivators, they prepare the earth for renewal.'
Joel Kovel, author of 'The Enemy of Nature'

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