Zillah Eisenstein grew up against the background of the civil rights movement in the USA. The daughter of communist, atheist, Jewish parents, her worldview has been shaped by this unusual background of politics. She writes: I have never known God as an explanation for what people do, or for what happens to them. I was brought up to believe in people: that people make the world through their...

Biodiversity, Indigenous knowledge and reproductive technology, intellectual property, development, war, responsibility and globalization - these issues and more are discussed by two of the world's most original thinkers on ecology and feminism. In constructing their own ecofeminist epistemology and methodology, Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva look to the potential of movements advocating...