Literature Review On Staying Alive

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Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development Vandana Shiva, South End Press, Medgar Even College, 1650 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225, 2010. 239pp. ISBN 978-0-89608-793-4 $16 Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development brings forth the idea that the dominant thought of the time ‘Science and Development’ is a project of western patriarchy and is masculine which sees nature and feminine knowledge as passive and subservient and has led to discrimination of both women and nature leading to culture of destruction threating the survival of communities and cultures. Nature and feminism focus on giving life through sustenance, diversity and reciprocation on the other hand ‘development’ focuses on production which is reductionist, destructive and violent. The answer to crisis lie in in feminine movements which supposedly provide a humane, non-gendered and…show more content…
For example, study shows that where traditionally plough were used there was less participation of female in workplace, politics and entrepreneurial activities. One of the critics have pointed the discrepancy in the narrative that the whole episode of witch hunting in Europe was initiated by the scientific community which is not true; it was instead the church which was opposed to female emancipation. In case of the India it misses the role of religious beliefs and traditions which led to apathy of women. It vehemently conveys the message that modern scientific knowledge has resulted in discrimination of all other forms of knowledge for its legitimization and dominance and has no other objective other than capital accumulation. However this view is somewhat extreme as it does not take into account various inventions which have in-fact led to the betterment of the society, for example, vaccine for eradication of small

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