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[http://www.ted.com/talks/halla_tomasdottir.html Halla Tomasdottir: A feminine response to Iceland's financial crash]. | [http://www.ted.com/talks/halla_tomasdottir.html Halla Tomasdottir: A feminine response to Iceland's financial crash]. | ||
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| + | Riane Eisler: [http://books.google.com/books?id=xWdXruuhyQcC&dq=The+Chalice+and+the+Blade&source=gbs_navlinks_s The Chalice and the Blade] (1987). Eisler relates how critical the roles of cooperation and sexual equality have been in the evolution of human culture -- not only to correct the idea that might-makes-right makes history, but also to point out the direction humankind might follow from here. Susan Griffin: [http://books.google.com/books?printsec=frontcover&vid=ISBN0704339331 Woman and Nature] (1978). A powerful exposition of how women and the natural world have been seen as versions of each other -- and violated in strangely similar ways. | ||
Revision as of 18:04, 3 June 2011
See also Eco-Feminism and Development.
Gender Inequality and economic development from Oxfam.
Hanna Rosin reviews startling new data that shows women actually surpassing men in several important measures, such as college graduation rates. Do these trends, both US-centric and global, signal the "end of men"? Probably not -- but they point toward an important societal shift worth deep discussion. (TEDtalk video).
Halla Tomasdottir: A feminine response to Iceland's financial crash.
Riane Eisler: The Chalice and the Blade (1987). Eisler relates how critical the roles of cooperation and sexual equality have been in the evolution of human culture -- not only to correct the idea that might-makes-right makes history, but also to point out the direction humankind might follow from here. Susan Griffin: Woman and Nature (1978). A powerful exposition of how women and the natural world have been seen as versions of each other -- and violated in strangely similar ways.
