Minding our lives : women from the South and North reconnect ecology and health / edited by Vandana Shiva.

"The seminar on 'Women, Ecology and Health: Rebuilding Connections', which has provided the basis for the material presented in this book, was held in Bangalore in southern India from July 17-22, 1991"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references.

Women, ecology and health : an introduction / Vandana Shiva -- After the forest : AIDS as ecological collapse in Thailand / Ann Danaiya Usher -- Killing legally with toxic waste : women and the environment in the United States / Penny Newman -- Environmental degradation and subversion of health / Mira Shiva -- Using technology, choosing sex : the campaign against sex determination and the question of choice / FASDSP Group -- Legal rights, and wrongs : internationalising Bhopal / Indira Jaising and C. Sathyamala -- 'Green earth, women's power, human liberation' : women in peasant movements in India / Gail Omvedt -- Filipino peasant women in defence of life / Loreta B. Ayupan and Teresita G. Oliveros -- Ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka : its ecological and political consequences / Rita Sebastian -- The seed and the earth : biotechnology and the colonisation of regeneration / Vandana Shiva -- The re-greening of the planet / Rosalie Bertell -- Ecological economics / Marilyn Waring.

This book addresses the cultural and political roots of the ecological crisis and the crisis in health, the link between environmental degradation and women's health, and between ecological breakdown and social breakdown.