>From: "Janet M. Eaton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Forwarded for your information from >TOES_ The Other Economic Summit list serve! >all the very best, >janet > >************WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT THIS BOOK************ > >ECOFEMINISM AS POLITICS: nature, Marx and the postmodern >by Ariel Salleh, >London: Zed Books, 1997 and New York: St Martins Press, 1998; >pp.208; index; ISBN 1-85649-400-4 (paper). > > >"A nascent political economy", "a unique and powerful explanatory >position": --UK political scientist John Barry, editor of the Green >Politics Newsletter writing in Environmental Politics, Autumn 1998. > >"I place Ariel Salleh's scholarship in the front rank with work of >socialist ecofeminists such as Vandana Shiva or ecofeminists >generally like Rosemary Ruether and Susan Griffin": > -- USA philosopher Max Oelschlaeger, editor of Postmodern >Environmental Ethics and author of Caring for Creation. > >"The book engaged me - it is passionately written, well researched and >sweeping in theoretical scope...there is something refreshing about >Salleh's inclusionary politics": > --USA feminist Betsy Hartmann, author of Reproductive Rights and >Wrongs writing in The Women's Review of Books, October 1998. > >Ariel Salleh's book Ecofeminism as Politics: nature, Marx and the >postmodern does what we all need to do in these times - integrate our >thinking about Ecological, Social Justice, Feminist, and Indigenous >concerns. An exemplar of complexity theory, her political synthesis >is developed as an embodied materialism. Salleh judges the libidinal >economy of contemporary politics, sexuality, and science to be born >of denial and thus blindly destructive or inconsequential. > >The author's lateral reasoning carries us through globalisation and >Green ideologies, gendered science and gene technology, aboriginal >land rights, the population debate, and critical reflections on >neo-liberalism and on Marx's theory of value. The book has been >adopted in environmental studies, history and philosophy of science, >ethics, politics, sociology, cultural and women's studies. Social >movement researchers will find here a useful broad brush history of a >popular globalising resurgence. > >In the search for sustainable futures, Salleh's grassroots alternative >goes global, building shared ground for women and men, North and >South. Her class analysis invites us to democratise our theoretical >models by learning from the reproductive labour skills and insights >of meta-industrial workers -housewives, peasants, indigenous peoples. >Honouring usually invisible ways of knowing nature, she finds the >precautionary principle already practised by this global majority, >whose labours minimise risk, reconcile differences, and hold complex >living - social and ecological - systems together. > >Ecofeminism as Politics is designed to destabilise the eurocentric >denial that separates mind from body, Humanity from Nature. An >activist and sociologist of knowledge, the author uses passion, >playful irony and forceful trans- disciplinary argument to >interrogate fixed assumptions and to re-embody economic thinking >within bio-energetic fields. Salleh grounds ecofeminist political >awareness in the painful material contradiction of living as both >human self and natural resource. And this phenomenology of exploitation >and bifurcation in her epistemic standpoint silences criticism of >ecofeminism as an essentialist position. > >Dr Ariel Salleh's gender critiques are published in New Left Review, >Environ- mental Politics, Science as Culture, Economic and Political >Weekly, Hypatia, Environmental Ethics, and Social Alternatives. She >teaches in Social Inquiry at the University of Western Sydney, >Hawkesbury; was Visiting Professor of Women's Studies at St >Scholastica, Manila in 1998; and visiting fellow in Environmental >Conservation Education at New York University, 1992. > >ORDERS >Zed Books, 7 Cynthia Street, London N1 9JF UK > Tel 44-171-837-4014 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >St Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010 USA > Tel 1-212-982-3900 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Astam Books, 57 John Street, Leichardt, NSW 2040 Australia > Tel 61-2-9566-4400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >******************************************************************************* >* >
