1. The History of the Subsistence Approach 2. Globalization and the Subsistence Approach 3. Subsistence and Agriculture: The Land in Women's Hands 4. Subsistence and the Market 5. Subsistence in the City 6. Defending, Reclaiming and Reinventing the Commons 7. Wage-Labour and Subsistence 8. Women's Liberation and Subsistence 9. Subsistence and Politics.
Two leading feminist thinkers, posing a radical alternative to the current free-market industrial system, show how if we are to survive, economies must become needs-based, environmentally sustainable, co-operative and local. They call instead for a new politics and economics based on subsistence.
Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen is an ethnologist and sociologist at the nonprofit Institute for Theory and Practice of Subsistence. Maria Mies is a renowned Marxist-Feminist scholar. Her books include Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale (Zed 1986, reissued 2014) and Ecofeminism (with Vandana Shiva, Zed 1993, reissued 2014).
A thought-provoking, challenging work, equally appropriate for
development studies, women's studies or environmental studies
*Progress in Development Studies*
In 1995, America's First Lady, Hillary Clinton, visited Bangladesh
to interview a group of village women who had received assistance
from the Grameen Bank. Hillary wanted to see whether the
?microcredits? had truly succeeded in empowering these women.
...But the village women then asked HIllary about her own
situation. Did she own any cows? No. Did she have her own income?
Well no, not since Bill came to the White House. How many children?
Only one? Poor Hillary. The village women of Bangladesh felt sorry
for her, since obviously she
*unlike them*
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