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Subject: What people are saying about this book


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************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 sales-AT-zedbooks.demon.co.uk
St Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010   USA
             Tel   1-212-982-3900 peterburrell-AT-stmartins.com
Astam Books, 57 John Street, Leichardt, NSW 2040   Australia
             Tel   61-2-9566-4400 info-AT-astambooks.com.au

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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 sales-AT-zedbooks.demon.co.uk
St Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010   USA
             Tel   1-212-982-3900 peterburrell-AT-stmartins.com
Astam Books, 57 John Street, Leichardt, NSW 2040   Australia
             Tel   61-2-9566-4400 info-AT-astambooks.com.au

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