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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.
 
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.
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[http://www.kitchensisters.org/girlstories/the-queen-of-bhutan/ Trekking with the Queen of Bhutan], a country which measures progress not by GDP but happiness and well-being of its people. From [http://www.npr.org/people/4759816/nikki-silva The Kitchen Sisters'] (Slugs!)  Hidden World of Girls. 
  
 
Environmental health advocate Charlotte Brody suggests that female scientists, with a different way of seeing problems and solutions, may lead us toward a new and healthy approach to the connections between human health and the health of the planet. [http://www.bioneers.org/radio/series-archives/2009-series/just-like-a-woman Bioneers]
 
Environmental health advocate Charlotte Brody suggests that female scientists, with a different way of seeing problems and solutions, may lead us toward a new and healthy approach to the connections between human health and the health of the planet. [http://www.bioneers.org/radio/series-archives/2009-series/just-like-a-woman Bioneers]

Revision as of 14:57, 10 July 2011

See also Eco-Feminism and Development.

Articles and Reports

Gender Inequality and economic development from Oxfam.


Images

Five Most Dangerous Countries


Video

Women Reshaping the World and Celebrating Tedwomen at TED conference.

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.


Books

Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her by Susan Griffin Derek Jensen says "This extraordinary and extraordinarily beautiful book is one of the most important books I've ever read. Using the words of scientific philosophers themselves (but putting them into a beautifully-written, poetic context) Susan Griffin brilliantly shows how the logic of science is fundamentally anti-life, and anti-woman. She juxtaposes this to some of the most wonderful embodied prose you could ever hope to read, and moves the reader from this alienated state of modern civilized people and back into our bodies. Words cannot do this book justice."

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.


Audio

Trekking with the Queen of Bhutan, a country which measures progress not by GDP but happiness and well-being of its people. From The Kitchen Sisters' (Slugs!) Hidden World of Girls.

Environmental health advocate Charlotte Brody suggests that female scientists, with a different way of seeing problems and solutions, may lead us toward a new and healthy approach to the connections between human health and the health of the planet. Bioneers