Women, Ecology and Survival in India

In the shift from the modernist, competitive and ‘catching up’ orientation of the first generation of feminists to a much more holistic, nurturant and non-dualistic perspective that is beginning to emerge from recent thinking on feminism, this book may prove to be an important contribution. It also commends itself for choosing an ecological stance that distances itself from western conservationists for whom the ‘wretched of the earth’, fast multiplying and making demands on the resource pool of the planet, are the source of environmental degradation, who they would like to exclude from access to natural resources which are, in fact, being far more rapaciously depleted by what the author calls the modern ‘development project’ than by the poor and the deprived.